Archive image from page 250 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 HAY-LOADER AT WORK. 181 wa<2jgon and luadcr are astride tlie row (if hay; the machine is easily and qnickly attached to and disengaged from any kind of harvesting cart or waggon, and it takes up the hay as cleanly as a fork; it will raise a ton of hay from the wind- row in live minutes, and it requires no exti-a men or horses to work it; it will work satis- factorily on all fairly level and even land, and it can be used to gather lo
Archive image from page 250 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 HAY-LOADER AT WORK. 181 wa<2jgon and luadcr are astride tlie row (if hay; the machine is easily and qnickly attached to and disengaged from any kind of harvesting cart or waggon, and it takes up the hay as cleanly as a fork; it will raise a ton of hay from the wind- row in live minutes, and it requires no exti-a men or horses to work it; it will work satis- factorily on all fairly level and even land, and it can be used to gather loose grain-crops with equal facility. These are the advantages claimed for it. Fig. 77 shows the loader at work. and in wliieli good seasons for securing crops are the exception and bad ones the rule, it is a great advantage to be able to avoid rick-making. lere there is a hay-barn the hay can be secured load after load as it gets ready, but where stacks are made it must either be made up into ' tramp-cocks,' where it can remain until there is sufficient to begin and finish a rick, or a rick-cloth must be put up, as in Fig. 78, with the poles stuck in cart-wheels or in the ground; and if neither of these precautions is adopted there is Fig. 77.—Hay-loader at AYork. These four machines—the mower, the tedder, the raker, and the loader—costing no more than two middling horses, are an excellent invest- ment for a farmer who cuts 50 or 60 acres of meadow-grass; and even on small farms, a one- horse mower, with a small tedder and horse-rake, will pay excellent interest on the outlay, enabling the farmer to do more work in less time and with fewer hands than could be done under the old-fashioned system of hay-making. Hay-hams.—One of the most useful of modern farm equipments is the hay-barn, which is simply a permanent shed for the storage of hay or of corn. lu a climate whose fickleness is proverbial. danger of the rick being deluged while it is still at the width, in which
Size: 1657px × 1207px
Photo credit: © Bookive / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1880, archive, book, bookauthor, bookdecade, bookpublisher, booksubject, bookyear, dairy_farms, dairy_plants, drawing, historical, history, illustration, image, london_new_york_cassell_petter_galpin_co_, milk_plants, page, picture, print, reference, sheldon_john_prince, vintage
