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by 15 and 6 J feet nigh. One compartment on the ground floor is used 

 as a hot room, having a flue 2 feet, wide covered with sheet iron running 

 through the centre If the heat is too intense from this, sand may be 

 sprinkled on top to reduce it. Above this flue and around two sides of 

 the hot chamber tiers of shelves are fixed 6 inches apart, on which the 

 pods are spread to dry. The shelves may be conveniently made of 

 laths, on top of which mats or canvas can be laid ; or fine-meshed wire 

 netting would serve the same purpose, perhaps, better than anything 

 else. Compartment No. 1 is the hot room. Dotted lines in it and in 

 Nos. 3 and 4 indicates where shelves are fixed ; D, door; W, window, 

 etc. The table is used for sorting green pods on, and is otherwise use- 

 ful at final measuring time and when the pods are ties into packets. 

 .No. 3 is above No. 1, and is also a warm room, some heat from No. 1 



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Scale: One Quarter [nch=One Foot. D. Door. W. Window. 



Fig. 2 — Plan of curing house. (Dotted lines indicate where drying shelves are 



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coming up through the floor. The clear spaces in Nos. 2 and 4 have 

 fibre mats spread on them when required, and on these the pods are 

 handled and sorted as they progress in curing. The worker, sitting 

 on the floor, keeps the four 1 >ts of pods — long medium, short, and 



