. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. IS'Z DAIKV FARMING. threatening and there is hay dry in the field, and tliey can be inihjaded at leisure when the rain is falling'. A hay-barn admits of the hay being got a little softer, because it can be stored away a load or two at a time, and so settle quietly down, cooling. Fig. 78.—Hay-stack and Rickcloth. as it settles; but if hay is got too soft, and put into a rick which is begun and completed in a couple of days or so, the excess of moisture causes far more "sweating&qu
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. IS'Z DAIKV FARMING. threatening and there is hay dry in the field, and tliey can be inihjaded at leisure when the rain is falling'. A hay-barn admits of the hay being got a little softer, because it can be stored away a load or two at a time, and so settle quietly down, cooling. Fig. 78.—Hay-stack and Rickcloth. as it settles; but if hay is got too soft, and put into a rick which is begun and completed in a couple of days or so, the excess of moisture causes far more "sweating" than is good for the hay. In many cases the ricks have had to be hastily cut to prevent firing, and it is no uncommon thing for hay-rieks to be destroyed by spontaneous combus- tion, which comes of the heating and sweating. Hay-barns, too, are very useful for a variety of purposes when there is s^Jare room in them; for the storage of carts and implements, and in sj)nng-time they are ])articularly useful as lambing - sheds, for by that time the bulk of the hay is generally eaten. Hay - barns are constructed in many different ways and of a great variety of materials. They may be run up at a very moderate cost on i)oles stuck in the ground, surmounted by a light frame- work which is covered over with asphalted cloth; and a straeture of this kind will ans-wer every pur- pose required of a hay-barn, while it will last a long period if it is smeared over w ith boiled u-as- tar every second year, to preserve it against the damp. They are also commonly built in a sub- stantial manner on brick or stone or iron pillars, and roofed wth tile or slate, and in many cases the bleak side of the barn will be entirely built in with wall, the front only being open and standing on pillars. The most recent, and, on the whole, the most ajijjroved >=, and satisfactory kind are built Avholly of iron, as seen in Fig. 79, or the barn may be a single rather than a double one; the j)^^^ are of ea
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