Drying Grass (1936)

Various shots of display of tractor drawn agricultural machines. They are grass cutters for making dried grass for animal fodder. The farmers drive the tractor across a field of green grass and the machines cut the grass.



One tractor drives away with a load of grass in a trailer.



The grass is unloaded from the trailer and moved into a drying shed by men with pitch forks. Shots of the grass as it is moved by conveyor belt through various drying processes. Exterior shot of drying shed. A man shovels coal into a heater to dry the grass. Shots of grass drying with clouds of moisture rising up. Man shows the powdery dried grass that is the end product. A man carries sacks of dried grass and piles them in a shed.
FILM ID:1222.31

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