Archive image from page 249 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 Fig. 75.—HOHSE-RAKE. better and quicker than can be done by hand. In very hot weather the hay-maker is particularly valuable; the hay requires to be constantly kept stirring, so that the sun may not scorch a portion' of it while the rest is still under-made. Sunburnt hay is deprived of no small portion of its nutritive pro- perties, and it does not con- tain enough moisture; the only way to prevent this is to stir it about as often as
Archive image from page 249 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 Fig. 75.—HOHSE-RAKE. better and quicker than can be done by hand. In very hot weather the hay-maker is particularly valuable; the hay requires to be constantly kept stirring, so that the sun may not scorch a portion' of it while the rest is still under-made. Sunburnt hay is deprived of no small portion of its nutritive pro- perties, and it does not con- tain enough moisture; the only way to prevent this is to stir it about as often as possible, and for this purpose the tedder is uncommonly useful. Horse-rakes. — In good weather the hay will not re- quire touching at all by liaiul. The mower cuts it; the tedder stirs it about, leaving it light on the Held; _ the sun and wind dry it, and it is ready for stacking. At this stage a horse-rake (Fig. 75) will be found a most useful inqilciiicnt, doing the work of si.\ or eight men, who are thus set at liberty for carting and stacking. A horse-rake with four-feel-six wheels will collect the hay into rows that are quite thick cninigh to cart from, leaving the ground much cleaner than would be done by hand, and in long hay leaving it so clean that it will require no raking afterwards; in short hay it will gene- rally be found neces- sary to rake the ground after the ' putting - in ' is done, but this the horse-rake will do, crossing the direc- tion taken before and raking perfectly clean. A boy riding and a light horse will do a large amount of work in a veiy short time with one of these self-acting horse- rakes, and a farmer with 20 acres of hay will always be repaid in a short time the capital laid out in buying one of them. Hay-loaders.—For large farms the hay-loader (Fig. 76) is a very valuable implement. In con- struction it is not unlike a liay-makcr : a revolving frame with curvetl teeth places the hay on an end- less web, which conveys it to the top o
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