European Devices One of the ablest of our machinists informs
me that in- ventors have been not less busy on the Continent, where the drying of crops grows steadily more popular ; and some cf the best authorities have come down on the side of the so-named Roma-Rosin process. Recent discoveries that grass is many times more valuable in its young state (hence the new intensive grass systems) add immensely to the value of artificial drying. The most perfect hay I ever saw was young grass cut off the fairways and bunkers of a golf course, and dried and trussed immediately. Sonic of our most enterprising landowners, Lord Cranworth and Lord Lymington for two, and a number of our chief mechanical inventors believe that in this grassy island the value of the fields may be almost doubled. It is, of course, a scientific truth that the old-fashioned hay- making of old grass sacrifices something like half the potential feeding value.
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