The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-18
PANCAKES OF HAY.
A New Process For Comprising Food
For Use Of Animals.
New YORK Tribune


The Georgia and Argentina mules
which are doing var duty IN South
Africa, with the British army, Will be
surprised when they see the new style
of baled hay which viii be served up
TO them as soon as the steamship Sus-
quehanna gets to Cape Town. Three
hundred tons were sent on the Sus-
quehanna recently, and it is the first
shipment of about $500 tons, ordered
by the British war department. The
balin8 Of the hay is being done at the
Atlantic dock in Brooklyn, where six
new machines, owned by the Plant
ers' Compress company Of Boston, are
being used. The machine was invented
by a man named 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 10
pounds.
What viii surprise Mr.. Mule viii be
the way the hay is handed out" It
viii be in pancake form The hay pan
cakes or layers which make UD the
bale are about three-fourths of an inch
thick, and as soon as the mule takes a.
bite Of the pancake he viii be kept
chewing so constantly that he viii for
get all about the bullets. Mr.. Peck,
who showed the reporter the process,
did not say that the mules mental fac
ulties would be engaged to this extent
That is simply a nOn-hayeating lay
mans own expression. The hay in the
pancakes is so tightly packed that as
soon as the mule begins chewing it he
viii have the same buOyant feeling eX-
perienced by the small boy eating dried
10 -
put up by the old style requires about
100 cubic feet space per ton. This new
tangled Georgia mule hay takes up
only fifty cubic feet space per ton.
A rather singular combination of cir
cUmstances is afforded at the baling
plant in Brooklyn. The contractor 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 compressOrs.
About half the product 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 cav
airy.
we are compassionate when it
comes to baling hay, but were expan-
siOniStS when it comes to selling il -
said Mr.. Peck. THE good thing about
this new bale is that a mule can carry
two 112-pOund bales, and after he is
fed off them for two or three days
there's enough left for a cavalryman
to use as a miniature rampant The
hay is packed so tight that a bullet
wouldn't go far into il. A mule can
carry only one of the 145-pOund bales.
/ The greater number of bales shipped to
South Africa weigh 113 pounds, the
English hundred weight.
"a rather remarkable fact in cOnnec-
ton with this process of baling was
/ discovered by accident. You see where
the hay goes into the machine through
four mOrUised holes about the thick
ness of the hand? Well, the FRACTIONAL
/ heat caused by the drawing of the hay
through those holes keep 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 pancake.
aromatic. Horses prefer hay run
through one Of these compressOrs TO
hay in its loose state, on account of its
aromatic properties"
Whether Mr.. Pecks theory is correct
or not, the fact remains that the heat
ed hay yielded a delightful Fragrance
/ i'm the old storehouse where the work is
/ being carried on.