Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-01-22

brook hay, fine quality, mixed some with
English in the bay, full nearly TO the
beams, none of these had end bands. This
hay being put in the barn last summer.
and corn stalks being on top from fall
until into the winter, it is well settled" 1t
is important for every farmer TO know
how many tons he has stored, because
the number of cattle he may winter is
always based upon the number Of pounds
of hay he can feed them. 1t is also i'm
portant in case of buy ing or selling hay,
because if the quantity in the NOW can be
approXimated by measurement, it will
save the labor of weighing and something
in the value of h ", which will be deterior-
ated by the handling necessary to weigh
1t with the appliances ordinarially at hand
in the country. Scion Robinson says, "In
ESTIMATING for our own use, we would
always count gross tons. In buying and
selling, it should be as we could agree /;
the custom of the locality would govern
the calculation" An " old farmer wrote
to New Yerk paper some lime since that
10 those living at distance from hay
scales, the following plan would be desir-
able:
Multiply the length, breadth and hight
into each other, and if the hay is some
what settled, ten solid yards make Il ton.
Glover will take from ten to twelve solid
yards per ton"
This statement was extensively circulat
ed, and we print it here to prove that it i
err oneous, which we do by the following
testimony. We hope all who have circn-
lated this error will inform their readers
that, in well settled NOV Of good hay.
where ten to twenty tons are stored togelh
er, they may ascertain the number of tons
approximately, by careful measurement
and calculation of one ton to from four
hundred to seven hundred cubic feet, nc
cording 10 quality and the degree of pres
sure. No where bat in the bottom Of Il
large NOW will four hundred feet make u
ton. But to the testimony. One wrier
says:
At or near the bottom of Il large NOV
where twenty tons are stored, four hundred
and fifty feet will make Il ton; while near
the top of the same it would take seven
hundred to seven hundred and fifty feet
1t rarely takes one thousand feet, where
hay has lain together IL length of time,
unless it be coarse and near the top, when
it may sometimes require even that mum
Der of feet.n
A farmer of Freeport, Me-, says:
" In II NOW forty feet long, sixteen feet
wide and fourteen feet deep, well settled,
The common estimate is from iOUr hundred
and twenty-five TO five hundred cubic feel
for n ton. For some fifteen successive
years have pressed hay in my own barn
from Il NOW less than the above, and the
average number of cubic feet required.
including tare, which is about five per
cent-has been about four hundred and
twenty-five feet per ton"
A farmer of SaXon's River, VT, saws:
Il have had some experience in meas
urlng hay, and find that of what we call
scaifold lay, not pressed, of II coar, equal
ity it takes some seven hundred feet to
the ton. But the scalfold hay, pressed by
grain being put on the top of timothy and
red top, free from clover, we have rule
to allow eight feet cube, or five hundred
and twelve cubic feet to IL ton, and the
same rule will apply to NOW of consid-
cradle size and same quality. 1t takes
somewhat more clover to make Il TOM
A farmer Of West Enosburgh, w., says
"When there is large quantity to-
gether four hundred cubic feet will make
Il ton; but Nhere only Il small quantity
like scailold is stored away, it will
take for II ton not far from five hundred
cubic feet. 1t depends something on the
quality, but am speaking of good herds
grass hay. saw IL scatlold measured and
weighed Il few days ago; it was twenty
six feet long eleven feet wide, and nearly
five feet high, making one thousand four
hundred and birty cubic feet; it weighed
five thousand eight hundred pounds-so
you must see that it varies but II fraction
from five hundred feet to the ton"
A Jefferson county, n. Y, farmer gives
II cube OF seven feet Of good hay as ton.
by actual measurement and weight in ii
large NOW, " Scai1old hay" he says, {"
buy or sell at five hundred and twelve feet,
or eight feet cube for ton"
An Oswego farmer says:
:" have just measured and weighed a
NOW of hay, two-thirds clover and one
third timothy, cut wet and dried, and
pitched with Il horse-fork, and stored six
months in NOW twelve by twenty-six
feet and ten feet deep, which took five
hundred and forty-nine cubic feet for II
ton. p"
a Georgetown, N. Y, farmer estimates
five hundred feet us the fair average for 3,
ton of hay in well settled mows, and
seven hundred feet on scatfolds.
A Lewis county, N. Y, farmer says:
~ have carefully measured and weigh
ed several mows of hay; in all eases it
was weighed in the barn, and varied but
little from four hundred cubic feet for IL
ton, A piece cut from the middle of II
good. sized NOW, seven feet square by eight
| teet deep, or three hundred and ninety
two feet, will weigh ton. And Ii ere is
not the difference generally supposed in
the top or bottom of II hay mow which
has lain from harvest until winter.
speak OF timothy or herd>grass, cut when
the seed had nearly matured, moved in
the forenoon. and scared in the afternoon
of the same day"
j. w. E, West Almond, Allegheny
county, N. Y, says:
81 filled NOW that is fifteen by thirty
feet with common timothy hay, so that it
settled 10 twelve feet high. weighed
out twelve tons, which is four hundred
and fifty feet to the ton"
l.. L. X. gives the following weight and
measure of his mows:
"Mow No. /, twenty-o ne by twenty one
feet square, thirteen feet in depth, required
four hundred and sixty solid feet to weigh
two thousand pounds This hay was tim
othy, not very coarse; cut while in BIOS
som, and well moved away by two men.
Now No. 2, ten by twenty feet square,
i've and half feet in depth, the hay the
same quality us No. /, required six hun
dred and fifty solid feet to weigh two
Thousand solid pounds.
CHOW No. 8, eleven by twcntv-lour
feet square, fourteen feet in depth, timothy
hay part OF it rather too ripe when cut /;
required five hundred solid feet to weigh
two thousand solid pounds.
"My experience is, it will require five
hundred solid feet of timothy hay, cut in
season and moved away rs it should be,
to weigh II ton taken from the center of u
NOW twelve by twenty.for feet square,
and ten feet in DEPTH
j. W. c., of Sullivan, Ashland county,
Ohio, writes March Goth:
"rhat the result of weighing that dav
was one hundred and forty pounds to Il
cubic yard from II NOW fourteen by six
teen feet, the hay lying about twelve feet
deep, and that taken out to-day was half