Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1858-07-16
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NAY cars.
Hay cap. Do pay, AID NJ mistake. Take
four yard, Of ylri.w.l' cotton shc,,ins,-
scw IL together - a. - make two yard.
square. h,m the rough cls,.. turn up each
corner two or ihrtc inches anl sew ii,tr,ns.
", uc in a short strong twine 70 form a
loop, and YOU have hay.eag ready Tor us'.
Four sharp wooden pine, Of hari wood,
half an inch in diameter, eighteen inches
long. - D. thrust upward through the loop,
int, the hay "a: the bottom Of the cock, c5m-
I,e,s the preparation.
Thi, .. our way oG dnin- it in the neigh.
b5rh5ol, and We arc all nt..G,i with it.
The c1,i uf the cloth /, eight cent, per yard,
and a., making You can calculate b,tt,r
than I, II YOU make them by hand. Min,
aye made GA a Wheeler & Wilson sewing
machine, which s,ws yarl in a minute.
one Of the " fancy contriunccs " which, by
the way, i "a crrat comfort 70 my family.
q. Well, how 90 your hay.caps work >" /,
tho question on all sides. why don't
they wet through jus, A. your cotton shirt
does on your hacka' The reason is, my
friend. beclus, they she'd rain just a' your
cotton umbrella does. Or 20 Dc more pro-
else, the principles cohesive attraction at
once uniie- two drops of water that touch
each other into one, and the same principle
conducts the wa,ar along the we: cloth to
is lower edge. II ,he hay was very ane
aud very green - that the cloth would touch
it az all points. &: wogl doubtless take OF
much of the water, but coarse or partly
dried hay /, in cln,ac; with the cloth, only
at comparatively ccw points, and 50 the cloth
conduct. the water away, like the covering
oc 4 tent. Coarse clover will remain safe
through a weeks rain with such protection,
while have had fine hay which was cooked
or green, injured by ieai,aS, not by water,
in three DAYS. On the whole, farmer Of
moderate means, who cuts much coarsehay,
cannot afford 70 be without some thirty or
forty hay caps. lie will save their value in
one such season as this, or tia, Of las, year.
MOVING MACHINES.
In 1853. near Albany, witnessed trial
exhibition OF two moving machines. Retch-
um's and Emery's, each one Of which Did
It's work handsomely, and at the rate Of
about an acre IN an hour. Since then 1
have seen several trials, but not one that
was satisfactory. Several tried in this
county last year, failed entirely. \ good
mower with the common scythe, can cut an
acre Of grass in tour hours, and IT a span Of
good horses. a skilial driver aud machine
worth hunlrcd dollars or more, and liable
70 expensive accidents, can DO no uiore than
four times as much, there is no great saving
Of cost on small farms We usually NOV
our grass in tho morning. le: il stand in
cock through one night, open II the next
day, say at ten O'Clock, and get il IN the
afternoon, and On this system, the men can
cut as much each morning by ten o'clock,
as they can attend to through the day. OF
course, we use horse-rake (the Indepen-
dent,) with which one man and horse can
DO the labor Of sigh! or ten men with hand
r,kes. Any farmer who cuts ten tons Of
hay, and docs rot use hOrse-rake. is be-
hind the age, AMI a e, jet for missionary
enterprise. Horsc-rakss arc among the
osscntials Of respectable farmers, and not to
BE- namod among doubtful implements.
Let US hear the reports of this years s1-