. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. Fig. 40.—Unloading Hay with SliDgs. The modern hay cap is supposed to protect the hay when leftout over night, or during showers, or steady rains which may last aday or two. Hay caps are commonly made of canvass, or lightercotton cloth, and are often chemically prepared to make them im-pervious to rain. There is also a wood pulp, or fiberite capwhich is impervious to water, being chemically prepared, and which is held in place by pins attached by pieces ofrope, as in the case of the cloth cap. It isoften the case that hay i
. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. Fig. 40.—Unloading Hay with SliDgs. The modern hay cap is supposed to protect the hay when leftout over night, or during showers, or steady rains which may last aday or two. Hay caps are commonly made of canvass, or lightercotton cloth, and are often chemically prepared to make them im-pervious to rain. There is also a wood pulp, or fiberite capwhich is impervious to water, being chemically prepared, and which is held in place by pins attached by pieces ofrope, as in the case of the cloth cap. It isoften the case that hay is made without theuse of caps. If men cock up hay skilfully,it will shed rain so as to suffer little or nomore from wet without caps, than where theyare used. The tendency of quick work is toslight the details, and it may often occurthat the carelessly cocked hay with caps on,will be in much worse condition after a rain than well cocked haywithout the caps. In one case dependence is put in apparatus,which in first cost, handling, and storage, may aggregate a sumgr
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