Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-06-18
Vermont Daily Transcript.
Hay Tedders.
THURSDAY, JUNE IS, 1868.

The hay crop IL the most important:
and from a commercial point of view
the most valuable raised in this state.
There has been heretofore great diff
ference of opinion among farmers about
the best time for securing the crop.
Twenty years ago everybody thought
that hay made from grass before the
seed begun to ripen was of no value,
and we well remember the croaking of
the old fogy neighbors of one man who
dared depart from the time honored !
custom and cut his "Timothy" while it
was "just in the blossom" ellis farm
would be ruined and he beggard if he
persisted in the foolish CUSTOM" they |
said; but he persisted nevertheless, and
to-day those old fogies or rather the rem
nant of them are all firm believers in
the theory that early cut grass makes
the most profitable hay. But difficulty
here presents itself, and that is,-how
to get it, Grass that is nearly ripe, and
dry, can be mown down and carted into
the barn the same day; while that which
Is greener requires more curing, which
implies more labor, beside the risk of
getting it wet by leaving it down over
night. With the mower there is no
difficulty in cutting the grass down and
with the horse rake and fork there is
little difficulty in getting it up, but the
insurmountable difficulty lies between
these operations,-in the curing of it.
The farmer who goes into his hay field
at sunrise and swings his scythe in
stout grass till noon, and then pulled
the hand rake till shutdown, does not as
rule Though there are yet some ex-
ceptions) experience any very great diff
ficulty in understanding the advantage
of the mower and horse rake and yet
this very same man cannot possibly see
how any new implement for stirring
the half wilted grass can possibly be of
any use whatever. We have had some
practical knowledge of tedders for some
time, and we fully believe that they are
destined to hold rs important q place in
the estimation of farmers as the mower
or the horse rake, and we believe that
the intrinsic value of the hay crop will
be enhanced as much by the use of the
tedder rs by the use of both the mower
and the horse rake.
There are two different styles of ted
der, the "American Hay Tedder" made
by the Ames Plow Co. of Boston and
Billiards., which is made for New Eng
land by the Belcher and Taylor Tool
Co., of Chicopee Falls, Mass.
Hon. I. Stanton Gould, says: "Those
who have never used this implement
little know how much they lose from
the want of it. Those who have used it
will never be without one. 1t is of
great value in curing all sorts of hay
but for curing clover it is indispensable"
Ross Winans of Baltimore, says
(June IS, 1867 81 used two of Billiards
Hay Tedders last season and am using
seven this season."
Edward Hawkins, Rome, n. Y, says
1.-THE Machine with team and small
girl to drive, did more work for me than
twelve men would do in the same time"
For shaking the dust from the grass
that has been flooded it can't be beat
1t improves such hay enough to pay fol
itself in short time"
John Day, Jr., of Bedford, Ms, says
81 bought the American Hay Teddel
last July, and gave it thorough trial
NV neighbors and myself used 1t tt
turn about 100 tons of hay. 1t works
easily and does the work thoroughly il
both light and heavy grass. Grass tina
IL cut in the morning and turned b!
this machine, will be fit to put in TIT
barn the same afternoon"
Henry Cobb, Of Amherst, Ms, says
"Having experienced the full benefit o
the moving machine in cutting m.
grass. 1 felt the need of some contri
vance to cure the hay, but could 1ln'
nothing without its ifs" and "buts'
till an agent showed me the American
HAY Tedder. 1 think have saved on
halfits cost in one season, by being abb
to give the hay good shaking III IN
middle of the day. put large part @
my hay into the barn on the same da,
it was cut, and in better order than
have ever had it,"
Mess. Farrar Brothers are agents TO
the American Tedder here. We do no
know that there is hn agent for Billiard
i'm this State.
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