Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-20
BALE THE HAY
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BY G. II. Afford, I II c Service Bureau,
Atlanta, Ga.

BY G. II. Afford, I II c Service Bureau,
Atlanta, Ga.
Baled hay is much more valuable as
feed than loose hay, even when the
loose hay is well housed.
Loose hay carries a great quantity
of dust and often gives the farm ami
mails severe cough while baled hay
does not.
Baled hay takes up about one-fifth as
much room as loose hay and for this
reason the entire crop of baled hay
can usually be stored under cover
while loose hay must be exposed to
the weather in stocks and ricks.
Baling breaks up coarse hay so that
the stock will eat it more readily and
there is no waste in feeding baled
hay.
Baled, hay is always ready for the
market 1t is convenient and salts,
factory to handle in every way. 1t
can be hauled by team or shipped by
railroad.
Much of the tops and sides of stacks
Is spoiled by the weather.
Loose hay becomes dusty and
musty Baling hay keeps out the dust
and preserves the hay.
Baled hay retains much of the
sweet hay oGor that stock relish!
There's freshness and appetizing
quality and feed value in baled hay
that is never to be found in loose
| hay
We should bale our hay whether we
feed it on our own farms or sell it. Of
course. the market demand is for baled
hay-and for baled hay only and for
this reason baling is the only way tc
be sure of having market for
it,
The growing of hay and especially
leguminous hay as cowpea, SOW tean.
peanut and lespedeza will rapidly in
crease the fertility of our soils, make
the raising of good live stock profit
able and add very much to the income
on the farms.
We can buy a one-horse pull-rower
hay press or we can buy motor hay
press. For the small farmer &hr
bales his own hay the one-horse pun
power hay press will Trove very salts
factory and economical With it ne
can bale his hay at the time most con
venient and with a small amount O
help, For the farmer who grows large
quantities Of hay or for the farre
who bales hay for his neighbors the
two-horse pull-power or the motor hay
press is necessary.
Of course, no man can tell the exact
capacity of any hay press as this de
Ponds to considerable extent uuor
the kind and quality of hay being
baled the skill of the operators, ant
the speed of the team. However IN
der ordinary conditions a 14x1S two
horse rull-rower hay press will ball
about s tons per day, a 14x1S pres
operated with a 3-horse power engine
will bale about 2 tons per day, :
l6XlS press with a 4-horse power en-
CINE about II tons per day, and {
IMP press with 6-horse power en-
CINE 16 tons per day.
We should purchase a hay pres
that has been designed for conven.
fence. There should be conslderabl
seed patch and plant say twenty-five
of the best ears in this patch. Each
ear should be planted IN a row without
mixing with any other ear. Twenty
five rows planted in this way will be
sufficient for the average farmer. Al
maturity. harvest each row separately
and weigh the yields Select the ears
for next years seed patch from the
rows that give the highest yields, and
the remaining portion of the rows
highest yield are used for planting
the field crop. And so the worh
should be continued from year to year
Yours very truly
III C SERVICE BUREAU.