The Rice belt journal., 1921-06-25
PHIL. COVERDALE INVENTS
A RICE CURING RACK
Claims it Will Eliminate Loss and
Damage to Crops in Wet
Weather.
Beaumont Enterprise:

Beaumont Enterprise:
Phillip H. Coverdale has invent
ed a system of curing rice which
he claims will deliver 100 per
cent in yield and 100 per cent in
quality, in addition to holding
down red rice which is brought
about largely through preventing
rice shattering out from the shock
or while beind loaded into wagons
for delivery to the threSher.
The devise will be knOW1 as
the "Coverdale Curing Racks,
and has already been tested out
under the most trying conditions
The devise is a simple rack in two
pieces which can be quickly set
up at any angle desired and will
maintain that position regardless
/ of weather conditions. Rice is
stacked on either side, receiving a
Gaping as in ordinary shocking,
The air passage underneath the
rack allows the straw to dry out
quickly. On account of the rigid
construction, they are practically
storm proof and will stand up
under conditions which would
level the ordinary shock into the
water and mud.
In this manner the expense OF
Restocking, recapping, turning
down shocks before threShing and
butting of bundles will be climi-
ated. One of the biggest savings
will be the elimination of lost mo-
ton in harvesting. ThreshinG
crews are expensive, and a device
which will dry out the gram in
from a to 4S hours will not only
save a big expense, but may be
the means of saving an entire
crop. 1t is claimed by Mr.. Cover
dale that Stackburnt rice will be
a thing of the past when his devise
is used in shocking, twill also
insure a clean, bright supply Of
straw for feeding purposes. The
same rack can be used for curing
fodder crops, peanuts, ETC., which
may be raised profitably on The
gulf coast if curing is possible.
"How it Works"
Coverdale, who has seen the
great loss that farmers have suffer
ed, worked out his device on the
principle that if sufficient air can
reach the rice, it will not decay,
even though the rains should be
unusually heavy. The rack is com
posed of two frames, six feet long
by three feet six inches wide,
which when placed together form
a rack on which the rice can be
piled. Three rows of bundles are
piled on each side of the rack, the
lower row lacking several inches
of reaching the ground.
This, the inventor explains, al
lows air to circulate under the
rice bundles, both at the ends and
the sides, and after the heaviest
rain a half days sunshine will dry
it out, where rice shocked in the
usual method is beat down in the
mud, making it difficult to dry
out. Each rack will take care of
Seventy-five bundles of rice.
They will be manufactured so
that they can be sold to the rice
farmer at an extremely low cost,
and the inventor claims the saving
from restocking, turning down
shocks before threShing, ETC., will
pay for the cost the first season.
1t has been successfully demon
strated on number of farms in
Jefferson county, and was shown
to accomplish the things claimed
by its inventor, according to far
merS who have seen it put to the
test.
The invention is expected by
those having knowledge of the
of curing rice to be an
immense factor in the rice grow
ng of the future in the south.