The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-10
DIARIES HAVE
LOTS OF GRASS
JOHN CoUFuY ADVISES
GROWERS As TO LOADING


z2ne(A by consumers are not OFT
ku0ur tnnDeGoanon's crop is the repor-
OF yeosps 0Ouxley OF Seattle, who was @
,hux1unnv sexinar in North Yakima Sat
kS,r6iv unnpseho will spend the greater
snns4 6 - prssent week in this city
49, vn6u asusng the producers.
'1aUuunn az the rains" said MI.
<uuu1U, 'tho Aaifymen Of the west
hr6Ae.W - &4Afe have had more grass
~ ~ euuad use. and in Seattle
snar - lnHr -cttAes the motor trucks
aSo unn1ng serious inroads OIL the
nu4unar e houses In general the
cpaatkaus 6re such that there is no
Inas1nt for tho hay.
Best Way Is to Feed $3.50
the fArthAr who ID making preps-
rax1pcB to shock his ranch with cattle
or dxsty cows, or In some way to feed
! his hay, is THE man who is taking a
wise course, and preparing himself for
the fuenre.; He can get much more
out Of his hay in that way and will
| hinnssaf be better pleased with the re-
! suits. For those who prefer to grow
and sell their hay I offer some advice
| in q circular which have just issued,
FOLLOWING UP that in which gave
j some advice as to the time to cut
Among other things stated by Mr..
CouxlAy. in his circular are the follow
Ing:
Best Way to Load
When loading hay in car it is
necessary that the shipper load the
same kind OF hay all, through the car.
or in case there are two kinds of hay
in the car, 1t should be- loaded so that
/ = Il y no
two different kinds of hay, SO that
when we take souri, customer, to t-ae
tsilrOAd yards we can show him the
car and be able to tell him that the
| ilAy In the car is. all the same as that
nv sees at the door. 1t is a mistake
: 70 load hay in any other way.
81 Ship Straight Grades
We do not advise any hay shipper
! to chip spotted bales unless he has
| enough Of that kind of hay to make a
straight carload, when we can gener-
ally find a customer who will buy such
hay at low price. 1t is. however, q
great mistake to mix any spotted or
Ell grade bales Of hay in q car of good
hay. We have had more trouble the
+ past year with off grade hay and
damages bales than we have ever had.
ut is also a loss to the shipper when he
ankles his hay in this way, because
when the buyer finds damaged or off
hf.rade hay in a car that Is supposed
NO be No. / he naturally keeps on
hooking for damaged or spotted bales
kGaurlng all the time he is unloading.
Another thing the shippers should
Nook out for and that is that their
tnl1alfa is not baaed ntoo heavy There
tAre nunet of duraCugtomers who like
ssalfalfa to run over - 1So lbs. to the
fbales In i other words, the average
weight on car of alfalfa should run
between 125 and 14o--lbs. to the bale.
srhe retailers ION this side object to
very heavy bales. as they claim their
customers do not want alfalfa that
will run more than $50 lbs to the bale.
t125 to LAO lbs. h. about the weight
they prefer.sfli afl- u rs. f.ttfs III b
Prompt Shipments
We think it would be to the hay
{ shippers advantage to be more pune
tual in shipping their hay when we
! advise them to. For the past year or
I two we have had a great deal OF ex-
perience in hay shippers writing to
ius. wanting to know the condition of
the hay market and what we thought
of the present prices. and If we would
advise them to ship their hay now OF
Ito hold it till later. In many cases
we have. written them to load and ship
r1rain diately, as the market was bare
| and prices were better than we were
expecting later on. After doing this
it would be sometimes ten days or
two weeks before we would get The
! invoice for the car, and by this time
our competitors had also got busy and
had large supply OF hay coming az
we'll as we. The consequences waS
the market had weakened and tho
clippers were dissatisfied with us for
not getting 8 better price when va
Claimed we were not to- blame.