SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 
Near the Pjedsted dairy there is a place called a ‘farmers’ seed 
factory,” really a corn and seed drying and pickling establishment, 
another and quite a recent co-operative enterprise. 
All seed which is to be kept for sowing, and. much of that for 
milling, must be artificially dried in this country. The method adopted 
here is that used by all the up-to-date seedsmen. The bags are not 
emptied ; they are laid over holes in the floor which they just cover. 
Hot air (130 ‘deg. F.) is then forced through them for from six to eight 
hours. As much as 10 per cent. to 15 per cent. of moisture is thus 
remoyed. Last year, to quote the information as it was received, 
19,000 tons of grain were treated. This was members’ grain which had 
been sold to the Government, and the latter paid 25s. a ton for the 
drying. 
Pickling is done by the hot water process, and oats and barley only 
are treated. Fox* wheat and rye bluestoning is reckoned quite satis- 
factory, and this is done on the farm. The hot water plant was put 
in by a Copenhagen firm, and the process is roughly this: Hot water 
is kept circulating from the main tank by a pump which feeds it through 
a system of milks back to the tank again. The temperature of the 
water as it passes through these valves is kept constant at 130 deg. F. 
by the automatic admission of steam. This is governed by a thermostat. 
The seed in bags is first soaked in cold water for six hours, then hoisted 
‘into the hot tank and left there for five minutes, from there it passes 
under a cold shower. After draining it contains 80 per cent. added 
moisture; this is dried out in the manner explained previously, and the 
seed is returned to the farm at 90 per cent. of its original weight. ‘The 
cost to members for this treatment was given as a rate which works out 
to a rather high figure, 2s. 6d. per 3-bushel bag. 
Apart from the properties visited this day, very interesting char- 
fone were met in the gentlemen who acted as guides. These were 
Mr. T. J. Brash, Dairy Commissioner for Jutland and Fyen, Mr. M. 
Olen, Agricultural Counsellor for the Fredericia District, and Mr. 
M. H. Lund, who had one time farmed in New Zealand, and did yeoman 
service as interpreter. 
The two former were very willing to discuss their status and duties, 
and as these resemble somewhat those of the inspectors of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture in New South Wales the opportunity was fully 
availed of. Mr. Brash is employed solely by the State. He has a 
large area of country as his field of operations, but is not burdened with 
any routine administration or even experimental work. His services 
are available to any society or individual within his district for advice 
on special matters, and he is free to move about to investigate and 
report on any new developments affecting the dairy industry. Of this 
class of officer it was gathered there are three for all Denmark. 
Mr. Olsen on the other hand has a strictly limited district to super- 
vise. He is one of about thirty men so employed in Jutland alone, to 
advise and assist farmers in their general agricultural affairs. It was 
gathered that there is a still greater number of dairy counsellors work- 
ing in the same area. Mr. Olsen is employed and paid by the local 
Fredericia Agricultural Association, and in part by the Jutland Society 
to which the local bodies are affiliated. 
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