Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-15

a" 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.
We allow for timothy, red top, and
similar grasses for hundred and fifty
cubic feet to ton at the bottom or
lower half Of ebay" that extends
from the floor to the barn beams. and
i've hundred and fifty cubic feet for a
tor at the top or upper half of such o
Day, after 1T has lain few weeks and
settled. OF clover hay on a scafold it
VIII take about six hundred cubic feet
Tor ton after it has lain say three
months. It 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
undressing at this time. A farmer
IN Uxbridge gives four hundred feet in
NOW twenty feet high, twenty feet
long and twenty feet wide, as the lowest
number Of feet he ever estimated. He
says: In scaffold of hay eleven and
a half feet square and nine feet high.
making l., 1901 solid or cubic feet, there
was by actual weight sob pounds of
hay or, little over two tons and a
half OF hay. The hay was upland in
teryal, resembling red top. This gives
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 far estimate for a ton q
"a farmer in West Enosburg, VT,
says: When there is a large guam
tity together, 400 cubic feet will make
ton, but where only a small quantity
like scaffold is stored, it will take for
a ton not far from 500 cubic feet. 1t
depends something on the quality, but
l am speaking of good herd grass hay.
[ saw scaffold measured and weighed
few days ago. 1t was twenty-six feet
long, eleven feet wide, and nearly five
feet high, making l, 43O cubic feet. II
weighed $500 pounds, so you must see
1t varied but q fraction Of 500 feet tC
the ton
GA farmer in Freeport, Me-, says
For NOW forty feet long, sixteen fee
wide, and fourteen feet deep, well-set
tied, the common estimate is 425 to SOC
cubic feet to the ton. For some ffteer
successive years [ have pressed hay IN
my own barn for NOW 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 general average rule &
cube of eight feet will make a ton Of
timothy, and we should allow about 8
quarter more for clover. If there is q
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 viii require
a less number of feet to the ton.
Now to make a calculation as to
how many herd Of cattle it will do tC
attempt to winter, farmers call it 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 a general rule, it is we'll tc
stock pretty well up to your capacity
and If likely to come little short buy
cr1,aiT, .