The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-06-29

ting grass to make the best and most
nutritious hay for feeding.
With the aid that improved imple-
ments for harvesting grass gives the
farmer, he Is enabled to do his haying,
cut, cure and house his hay, nearer to
any particular stage than has been the
case heretofore, with less aid from in
ferior farm implements. Allowing for
favorable weather, grass may be cut,
cured and housed i'm less than one
fourth the time taken with the best of
former practices, when all was done by
hand. BY the aid of the tedder and
horse, grass may be cut and sufficiently
cured to keep well, in tight barns, even
| If the suns rays are obscured behind
intervening clouds, and do not at any
time fall on the grass after being cut,
1t may take little more time and la
Dor, but by continuous tossing and
turning the grass becames deprived of
that moisture which tends to fermenta-
ton, and becomes suitably cured to
make the best and most perfect hay
and stock eat it with the best ofrelish
and what is more, they thrive better
than If fed ordinary hay with portion
of grain daily. For cows giving milk
there can he no better feed than this
hay alone, after grazing on the best OF
pasture grasses.
i | would not have the reader infer
from the foregoing that grass can be
cut and stored in the NOW without
suitable curing, as that is very far from
my meaning, and experience ha.
taught me that, unless well cured, hay
Twill injure in the NOW. There is 6
mean in curing, as well as in cutting
hay, where ii makes the best feed anC
keeps well in the NOW all superfluoui
matter, or moisture, must be dried ou
of the grass and hay before it will de-
to put it in the NOW the sap must bt
inspissated to a suitable degree, which
is best learned from experience, anC
then grass will keep sweet in barn o.
stack, which will protect it from tn,
penetration of moisture. Hay is cured
or grass is made into hay rather, soon
est when the moving is done after tn,
dew and moisture is dried off the grass
and the ground is suitably dry ant
when thus made, hay is sweeter ant
better than if the grass is cut when we
either from dew or rain. With tn
mower grass may be cut, ordinarily
after the dew is off, and where tn
mower is soon followed with the to
, der. tossing it in the air. the grass be
comes sufficiently wilted and dry t.
rake and cock by four or five o'clock il
the afternoon, and if the weather look
threatening, like storm, hay cap
properly fastened over the cocks will
protect from damage by wet, and whel
fair weather comes the curing process
in the field is soon done with the hand
fork and tedder-the hand fork to shak
, out from the cock, and the tedder +
stir ii afterwards-and then the horse
rake soon puts it in windows, ready 70
, the pitcher to throw on the cart, or th
automatic loader to put on the wagol
as it passes along the windows. Thu
1t is soon ready to drive to the barn
where the horse-fork and conveyo
soon place 1t in the NOW, enabling th
hay-maker to cart from the field YER
= much greater quantity of hay thai
where only manual labor is used.
Il What an advantage the present fai
mer has over his predecessor in the pei
Torrance of, not only haying, but al
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, In Country Gentleman.