Abstract: An apparatus for growing and harvesting a tangled mass composed of sprouted seed grain, including a plurality of overlying movable (relative to the frame), substantially planar surfaces having a length, each surface movable (relative to the frame) between a first position and a second position, each surface configured to receive a layer of seed grain that is permitted to grow for a predetermined period of time on each surface in the first position, the layer of seed grain becoming a continuous tangled mass of sprouted seed grain. After the predetermined period of time, a surface of the plurality of surfaces is moved to the second position, such that the mass associated with the moved surface is at least substantially removable from the moved surface due to gravity.

Abstract: An apparatus for growing and harvesting a tangled mass composed of sprouted seed grain includes a plurality of overlying immobile, substantially planar surfaces having a length. Each surface is configured to receive a layer of seed grain that is permitted to grow for a predetermined period of time on each surface, the layer of seed grain becoming a continuous tangled mass of sprouted seed grain. An extraction device removes the mass from each surface. A cleaning device removes debris from each surface prior to each surface receiving a subsequent layer of seed grain.

Abstract: A waterproof cover for a multiple bale stack of forage material arranged in a peaked pile of bales, the cover having opposite edges provided with hems having spaced notch-like openings therein along the edges of the hems which respectively receive a series of rods in longitudinally-spaced position in the hems, a series of U-shaped members connected at the ends thereof respectively to the rods with the rounded ends of the members projecting through the notch-like openings, a series of parallel tie strands disposable beneath the stack of bales in alignment with the U-shaped members on the rods in the hems, and the opposite ends of the tie strands being connectable respectively to the U-shaped members to secure the cover to the top and sides of the stack of bales.

Abstract: A simplified aseptic connector assembly for tubes or conduits to conduct sterile fluids and comprising interconnectable complementary male and female connector members respectively connectable to the ends of tube sections to be connected, one of the members having a socket open at one end and dimensioned to slidably receive the other member which also has an axial socket open at the outer end which is adapted to be received in the socket of the one member, the axial socket in the other member being tapered and complementary in shape to a tubular prong extending axially within the socket of the one member for frictional reception within the tapered socket of the other member and the prong having a piercing tip terminating short of the open face of the open end of one member, each of the open ends of the sockets of the members initially being sealed by membranes to maintain the interiors of the sockets in aseptic condition; the sealed ends of the connector members being adapted to be dipped in a disinfecting so