Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-05-16
Mr.. FUeATg ON Hay.

May 1, contains an interesting article,
Saving Hay in Wet Weather" writ.
ten by ]. E. Fugate of Alachua. and for
which he received prize, being one
of five awarded. Mr.. Fugate has
treated his subject in a clever, prac-
teal manner, and it win no doubt
prove Of great benefit to the farmer,
as his suggestions are good Mr.. Flu
gates friends congratulate him upon
this excellent article, which follows;
Il select a piece of tolerably old
land that will make from ten to
twenty bushels of corn to the acre,
where the beggarweeds do not grow
very rank, but thick.
Il break this Land good and deep
with twohorse pillow, turning under
all vegetation early. When planting
time comes, l law off rows four and
one-half feet apart, opening with six
on eightinch shovel deep; plant the
corn there and one-half to four feet m
drill, covering with planter pillow or
double stock with two small seooters,
SO as to cover shallow and leave corn
below level.
when time to work, run around
with small sweep tolerably deep, plow
out middles with scrape or large wing
sweeps, so as to leave beds fat; after
this, cultivate shallow with same until
laid by, so as not to make any more
bed than possible.
When corn will. do to gather, r
gather it. AS soon as the beggar-
weeds begin to bloom, and get day
when l think it won't rain that
day, as soon as dew dries off, | so
in and NOW until noon. In afternoon,
take two men and commence raking
and stacking corn, stalks and all,
using ten-foot fence rail for stack.
pole set two feet in ground with
post-hole digger. / stack right on
ground or throw some cornstalks
down first. make my stacks about
six feet through at bottom and keep
Jnem well-rounded up and patted down
as-they go up with fork, never letting
anyone get on stack When / get to
top of rail, | put large forkful on
top and pat it down smooth with fork, |
and continue in this way every day |
that weather will permit until ] get |
all l want saved; then ! let remain |
in this stack from twenty to thirty |
days, or longer, according to weather
conditions. The damper the weather,
the longer 1t must stay in these stacks,
Do not be uneasy about this spelling,
for II will not, as the cornstalks will
Aeep it from heating and packing
and also act as an absorbent of mois-
ture
when it gets thoroughly cured,
haul it to barn or press and bale
81 will add that in stacking you gen.
orally get rid of at least % per cent
Of the stalks, as they will fall out OF
the hay in handling, Then when you
go to haul, the man forking II on
wagon viii throw out about 25 per
cent more and man on wagon the
same BY the time you get It to the
barn or press, you only have about
lb per cent mOre and as Won are IN.
oading 1t you can easily throw these
1ut and not lose any time.
"You will be surprised to see how
green and nice hay will keep in this
even under unfavorable
weather conditions; horses will eat
his hay in preference TO the finest
timothy or clover hay in the world.
q have left hay stacked in field In
his way from September until Jan.
iary, and inside It was as II Il had
lot been there a month. will also
ldd that Il sheds but very few leaves
,ured in this manner.
Peas or any other crop that will
nature after corn is gathered, can be
aved in same manner; but you will
AVE TO plant bunch varieties OF
,eas. so they won't run on stalks.
You may think that am a luny.'
iut IL you viii try this method once {,
'ou will worry no more about saving