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Storing Green Hay

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
March
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The usual method of making hay is expmsive and liable t risks, owing to tlie ehaugeable weather at the haying senson. To escape the (langer of wetting and spoiling,experiments have been made with grass ent and stored in one day, and af tor onlytwohonrs'exposureto thfi sun. In these experiment the grass was ent as soon as (ree trom dew, was Ihen turued over (moe with the teddingmachine, and, after drying for two hours, was hastily gathered and removed to a tight baru. The barn was plastered on the muido, and had a tight lioor and roof, and, as noon as the loads entered, the doors were elosed and the hay immediately packed into the mow. Tlie bain was then kept as nearly airtight as poBsible, till tlie hay was eonsumed in the winter. By this method of qiüok gathering, and the perfect exclusión of rain, nnd the nearly perfect exclusión of air, the liay WOS prescrvcd sweet and in excellent condition, and was found to be more valnable as food for cattle tlmu hay made in the ordinary way. Tlie chiel' points of interest in this method of curing grass are the quiek gathering and the use of tight buildings for tlie exclusión of moisture and air. The experimenta made in tÜia diivction are ceportodto bc very satisfactorj', and the Bnbjeet oommends ïtself to tlieattntion of farmers in the variable climntes of some, of our States, both ou the score ol economy of time and labor and the im]roved quality of the b.a,j.-Scr(bnerJbr April. Evangeijst BriiNHAM was annoyel by a erying baby, wliile exhorting at Tylerville, JefferBon county, N. Y., reoently, mul told the moth v t remove thechild. Tlie, people near by told Uie woman to remaan, and the genüe Umiihnm donned lus bat, ooftt and ovenlxoei, mul left thf ooogngttioo to the itubbornnM et

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Old News
Michigan Argus