Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1910-02-10
More Hay Rules

AS might be expected the article
published in the Free Press last week
on how to measure hay has resulted in
considerable discussion and this week
we have had the following rules ad-
vanced by prominent farmers and
ranchers of the Prairie.
While on this subject the thought
occurs to us that it might be good
thing for the Farmers Union TO sug-
gest some practical rule and one that
all could get together on. This would
be of vast Importance to both buyer
and seller. The columns of this paper
are open for such discussion. Let us
have your rule if you have better
one than any so far advanced.
Neil Zehner, one of the best known
ranchers on the Prairie, offers the fol-
lowing rule, taken from a booklet is
sued by the Mccormick Harvester
Company some years ago.
Measurements of Hay
25 cubic yards of hay in windrows
make ton. When loaded OH wagon,
20 cubic yards make ton. When
settled in mows, Is cubic yards make
a ton.
Rule to find the number of tons of
hay in long, square stacks: Multiply
the length in yards by the width in
yards, and that by half the height in
yards, and divide the product by Is.
Example: How many tons in a
stack 10 yards long, 5 yards wide and
8 yards high?
10 times times 9 is 450; divide by
2 gives 225; 225 divided by Is equals
Is tons.
1t will be noticed that this McCor-
mick rule takes Is cubic yards, or 405
cubic feet, for ton of loose hay. The
figure usually used in this part of the
country is 512 cubic feet.
In analyzing this rule it will be
seen that it is simply the rule used in
some parts of this section, running as
follows: Multiply the length by the
width by half the heighth, to get the
number of cubic feet in the stack
Applying this rule to the cord of
wood, 4X4XS, we have the following
result The length, 8 feet, by the
width, 4 feet, is 30; 80 times one-half
the height, 2 feet, is GA cubic feet, or
Just half a cord.
Applying the Government rule to
the Mccormick example and reducing
the yards in that example to feet, we
have the length, 30 feet, the width Is
feet, the height q feet, which would
make the over 81 feet.
Over 81, less width Is, leaves AZ.
Divide by 2, is p. q times the
width, Is, times the length 80, is $3.50
Dividing by 405, according to the Me
Cormick rule, would be % 1-3 tons.
Dividing by 512, according to custom
in this part Of the country, we would
show Is 1-2 tons.
Where the Mccormick rule in this
example shows Is tons, the Govern
ment rule will show % 1-3 tons.
There is also Mccormick rule for
, measuring hay in circular stacks,
!, which reads as follows:
| Multiply the square of the circum.
ference in yards by four times the al
titude in yards, and divide by 100
making the cubic yards in the stack
Then divide by Is for the number o.
tons.
Example: How many tons of hay
in circular stack whose circumference
at the base is % years, and height
yards.
! % times 25 is 625, times 9 times
lis 22,5OO Divided by 100 is 225
cubic yards, or Is tons.
Harry Markham, the well-knowr
Camas Prairie stockman, advances 9
new rule for consideration. 1t is al
follows:
Multiply the length by the widtf
! by half the height, applying this to
the stack IL feet wide, 81 feet lone
and "a feet over, we have the follow
ing:
The width, II feet, and the over p
feet, would make the height 10 feet
One half of 10 is 5, times the widtl
y feet, times the length, 81 feet
equals 1880 cubic feet
Applying this to cord Of wood WI
would have 4 feet, the width, time
the length, 8 feet, is 81. 81 times one
half of the height, 2 feet, is Ga cubi'
| feet.
This rule appears too conservative
Fl To the Editor of the Free Press
0 In answer to how much hay ricl
e contains would say, there are condi
r tions to be considered, viz. time O