River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-17

cultivated grasses the Massachusetts,
Pleugman says:
"Many farmers, particularly those
who have been building a new barn
within the last five years, have the adj
vantages of good hay scales, and know,
IN consequence. exactly how much Eng
ish hay the farm has yielded. but the
great majority have no such conve-
nience, and they must get it in some
other way. In such cases there
is nothing left better than the
simple measurement, but that is sufi-
cient for all practical purposes. It can
never, in the nature of things, be de-
pended upon for perfect accuracy, be-
cause so many elements are involved,
as the character of the hay, whether
timothy, red top or clover, the time
during which it has been stored, the
depth and height of the NOV or the
bay, the time when it was cut etc.;
but bearing the modifying circum-
stances in mind, we can arrive at a
very close approximation to exactness,
as we know from experience, having
sold hay by measurement, with the
right to weigh at the buyers option and
expense, and the results almost invari-
ably justified the estimate.
1--WE allow for timothy, red top, and
similar grasses foar hundred and fifty
cubic feet to a ton at the bottom or
lower half of ebay" that extends
from the floor to the barn beams, and
five hundred and fifty cubic feet for
tor at the top or upper half of such
bay, after it has lain few weeks and
settled. Of clover hay on a scaffold it
will take about six hundred cubic feet
for ton after it has lain say three
months. 1t will be seen that the aver
age of the full of red top and timothy
will not be far from five hundred cubic
feet to the ton, varying, of course,
somewhat by the circumstances alluded
to, that is, the season, the time of cut
ting, the thoroughness with which it
was cured, the time it was settled, etc.
Testimony on this point may not be
uninteresting at this time. A farmer
in Uxbridge gives four hundred feet in
NOW twenty feet high, twenty feet
long ard twenty feet wide, as the lowest
number of feet lie ever estimated. He
says: In scaffold of hay eleven and
half feet square and nine feet high,
making l, 1907 solid or cubic feet, there
was by actual weight sob pounds of
hay; or, a little over two tons and a
half of hay. The hay was upland in
terval, resembling red top. This gives
a fraction less than fourteen hundred
and sixty-nine cubic feet to the ton.
Under ordinary circumstances five
hundred solid feet of well-packed, not
very close, hay, is considered with us
to be FAIR estimate for tom
GA farmer in West Enosburg, VT,
says: When there is large guam
tity together, 400 cubic feet will make
ton, but where only a small quantity
like scaffold is stored, it will take for
ton not far from 500 cubic feet. 1t
depends something on the quality, but
/ am speaking of good herd grass hay.
/ saw a scaffold measured and weighed
few days ago. 1t was twenty-six feet
long, eleven feet wide, and nearly five
feet high, making 1,430 cubic feet. 1t
weighed $500 pounds, so you must see
1T varied but fraction of 500 feet to
the ton
"a farmer in Freeport, Me-, says
For NOW forty feet long, sixteen feet
wide, and fourteen feet deep, well-set-
tied, the common estimate is 425 to 500
cubic feet to the ton For some fifteen
successive years / have pressed hay i'll
my own barn for NOV less than the
above, and the average number of feet
required, including tare, which is
about five per cent, has been about
425 feet per ton
''It will appear from these state.
ments, that as a general average rule
cube of eight feet viii make n ton of
timothy, and we should allow about a
quarter more for clover. If there is
considerable mixture of clover, as there
frequently is, the proper allowance
must be made for it, and it will require
the exercise of some judgement and
skill to get at it. So if the hay is very
fine and unusually solid, it will require
a less number of feet TO the ton.
snow to make a calculation as to
how many herd of cattle ii will do to
attempt to winter, farmers call il in the
rough about two tons TO the COW, and
make allowance, of course, for other
stock according to age and size, and
for other feeding substances, like roots,
etc. As general rule, it is we'll TO
stock pretty well up TO your capacity,
and if likely to come little short buy
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