Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-12-13
New Way of BaIing Hay.

NEW way OF Dal1rlS I1dy.
The Georgia and Argentine mules
which are doing war duty in South At
rlca with the British Army will be sur
prlsed when they see the new style of
baled hay which will be served up to
them as soon as the steamship Sus-
quehanna, Barber & Co.,agents, gets to
Cape Town Three hundred tons were
sent on the Susquehanna recently, and
1t is the first shipment by William B.
Bloomingdale, of No. 95 Broad street,
of about forty-fve hundrer tons order
ed by the British War Department.
The baling of the hay is being done at
the Washburn Stores, Atlantic Dock,
in Brooklyn, where six new machines
owned by the Planters Compress Com
pany, of Boston are being used The
machine was invented by a man NAM
ed Lowry. The hay is put up in bales
cylindrical in form, about the size and
shape of the old fashioned nail keg, or
eighteen inches high and of the same
diameter. When baled in this shape
the hay is as hard as a board The
bales weigh about one hundred and
forty-five pounds,
What will surprise Mr., Mule will be
the way the hay is handed out" 1t
will be in pancake form. The hay
pancakes, or layers, which make up
the bale, are about three-fourths of an
inch thick, and as soon as the mule
takes bite of the pancake he will be
kept chewing so constantly that he
will forget all about the bullets. Mr.
Peck, who showed the reporter the
process, did not say that the mules
mental facilities would be engaged to
this extent. This is simply a non-hay-
eating layman's own impression. The
hay in the pancake is so tightly packed
that as soon as the mule begins chew
ing it he will have the same buoyant
feeling experienced by the small boy
whose waistband is made tight by eat
ing dried aples. The most compact
bale Of hay put up by the old style
requires about one hundred and sixty
cubic feet of space per ton. This new
tangled Georgia mule hay takes up on
ly fifty cubic feet space per ton.
A rather singular combination OF
circumstances is afforded at tht baling
plant in Brooklyn. The contractor
Mr.. Bloomingdale, is using Canadian
hay baled in the old square fashion
in Canada. The old bales are torn to
pieces and fed into the top of the six
new compresscrs. About half the pro-
duct of the Brooklyn plant goes to
South Africa for use in the army
which is fighting the Beers, while the
other half goes to Manila for use by
Lawton and MacArthur's cavalry.
I'VE are compresionists when ii
comes to baling hay, but we're expan-
siOnists when it comes to selling it,
said Mr.. Peck. THE great thing
about this new bale is that a mule can
carry two 112 pound bales, and after
he has fed off them for two or three
days there's enough left for cavalry
man to use as a miniature rampant
The hay is packed so tight that bull
let wouldn't go far into it. A mule
can carry only one of the las pound
bales. The greater number of the
bales shipped to South Africa weigh
112 pounds, the English hundred
weight;
"a rather remarkable fac, in con-
nectlon with this process of baling was
discovered by accident. You see
where the hay goes into the machine
through four mortised holes about the
! thickness of the hand? Well, the fric-
tioral heat caused by the drawing OF
the hay through those holes keeps the
whole top of the compressor hot. As
the hay passes through the heat fuses
the juices in the Timothy and clover
and makes the whole layer, or pan
cake, aromatic. Horses prefer hay
run through one of these compressors
to hay in its loose state, on account OF
its aromatic properties"
Whether Mr.. Peck's theory is correct
or not the fact remains that the heated
hay yielded a delightful fragrance in
tn cold storehouse where the work Is
being carried On.-New York Tribune
| Robt. B. Mantell, the great actor, al
the Auditorium Wednesday, Dec. 49,