The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1894-09-15
FOR THE FARMER RS.
sEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS FOR AG-
RICULTURISTS.
Some About Hay-Mnking-
u Shuts Atscif-TO Make "a Bee
V~eil-ClOver for FowIs-Some Farm
Notes.

L would cut timothy when one-half
the head had gone out of bloom, for
then / would get the most available
hutriment In the stalks and leaves, and
nave no seeding to shatter and waste
when feeding, says a writer in Rural
New Yorker. 1 would commence cut
ting when the dew had dried off in the
morning and in the afternoon rake it
into large windows. Next morning as
soon as the dew had dried off and the
sun was hot l would send one mar
anead to throw the windows into
"tumbles," and tell him to be sure and
TURN every part of the hay and make
his tumDles on dry ground. not on the
ground that had been covered by the
Wlndrows. These tumbles should be
mace Ill two rows, separated Just
enough for the wagon to pass between
them, II by the time the mar making
them had got a good start the wagon
would follow with two pitchers and n
loader and take up the hay.
This seems simple enough and 1t is
simple, but the trouble lies In getting
men to make the tumbles right; they
Will begin at one end of the windrow
ana roll the hay to the place where
Il wish to make the tumble, and
leave 1t In such a tangled state that the
pitchers have to tear it all to pieces
In order to fork it to the loader. More
over, the bottom of the tumble has not
been disturbed at all, and as it has been
absorbing dampness from the ground
all night, will be hardly fit to 90 into
the NOW. If a man will stand along
SIDE the windrow, he al take at one
Iorkful a width of hay as it was left
by the hay rake, and by using a little
skill he can manage SO as to turn the
top OF the windrow down and leave
the whole light and loose; her by tax
ing w steps he can get another hay
rake width of windrow and lay it light
~ on the first; four steps will bring him
to the third lot, which will be enough
to make the tumble. Then he goes to
the other row, and, after making that
tumble, proceeds to the neXt wind
row. One man can easily keep two
pitchers at work if he knows how to
save steps and work to advantage.
Ii the pitchers understand their bust
ness they will not jam their forks into
the top of the tumble and strain them
selves by trying to lift the whole at one
Notwithstanding a good part of it
on the ground and sides of the load
but will take it off in the order in which
1t was put up and deliver it to the
leader in such shape that he can place
1t with the least expenditure of muscle.
L ave never used n hay-loader or
teGder. The tedder is II useful implc-
ment, particularly in catchy weather
and in curing clover hay.
Later in the season., when timothy
gone out of bloom, the seed has
formed and the sur is hotter, it may be
cut and moved away the same day,
and will make very good hay, but not
as good as when cut earlier. Cut be-
fore the whole head goes out of bloom
and cured as l have described, the hay
be of a green color, fragrant, and
will weigh well if it is to be sold. One
object sought in putting hay in tunbles
In the way 1 recommend is that the
hay gets a good airing with the leh st
exposure to the u and there will be
damp punches to make it mold in
the NOW. Hay made in this manner
about as little for hand labor as
any 1 have tried, and it is a sure way
to make good hay when the weather
are favorable.