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Mr. HoGLE. Not with our process. We do not dry products with 



Senator Norms. You have a different process from those that have 

 been described here? 



Mr. HoGLE. Yes, sir; entirely 



Senator Noeeis. All right. 1 presume you will be on the stand and 

 you can tell us about it later. 



The Chaieman. Doctor, you think if the Government was to estab- 

 lish these drying plants next to the land-grant- colleges and one or 

 two other demonstration plants in the horticultural and gardening 

 btates, that it would be of great assistance in securing markets 

 through publicity? 



. ^J: Alsbeeg. Yes, sir. The Government can put a thing of this 

 kind into practice at less expense and in less time and more efficiently 

 than interested private parties can. Exactly where each plant should 

 be determined separately ih each case. 



The Chaieman. Particularly when the Nation is schooled on food 

 conservation. 



Dr. Alsbeeg. The department has been trying to get consideration 

 of these products from the public a great many years, and until this 

 present emergency came along we were practically unsuccessful. 

 Now every one is interested, and it may interest this committee to 

 know that through the county demonstration agents of the land- 

 grant colleges who, of course, are working in cooperation with the 

 department, the department has had the drying of vegetables intro- 

 duced in connection with the canning clubs. Small-scale drying was 

 conducted through the county agents in a very large way last year. 

 The county agents inform me that it has been highly successful, and 

 that they anticipate a very much larger volume of drying this year 

 than last. There were some products we did not understand last 

 year as we do this year. But, on the whole, the field, so far as drying 

 in a small way for the use of the home on the farm is concerned, it is 

 pretty firmly established and is going to grow. It will be promoted 

 in the coming year. 



Senator Noeeis. This gentleman answered about the corn. There 

 is some other method of drying than the one described? 



The Chaieman. I expect that is an up-to-date method. 



Senator Noeeis. I wanted to ask the doctor, because he is an ex- 

 pert, whether there are other methods than the one described and 

 that we have been hearing testimony about. 



Dr. Alsbeeg. I do not know of any practical method personally, 

 by which I do not mean to imply that some other method may not be 

 feasible, but I have no knowledge of any other method that is based 

 on any other principle than drying with dry air, either cold dry air 

 or warm dry air. 



Senator Kansdell. Doctor, would it not be entirely practicable for 

 the Bureau of Home Economics in the Department of Agriculture to 

 practically teach people this method ? 



Dr. Alsbeeg. You mean home drying? 



Senator Eansdell. Yes, sir. 



Dr Alsbeeg. Yes, sir ; it would, and in connection with the county 



^^Senator Kansdell. And larger plants, if the people wanted to estab- 

 lish them, they could show them? 



