Archive image from page 254 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 ENSILAGE. ]S5 the maoliineiy ci£ the (hyer are di-iveii by an engine; the rest of the arranirement is elearly enouo-h seen in the iUustration. The quantity of hay that this machine will make in a day depends on the degree of wetness in the hay; it is, as a rule, better to let the hay be partly made in the field and to finish it off iu the machine, if this can be done in the wet weather, during which the machine is valuable; and of this
Archive image from page 254 of Dairy farming being the. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying dairyfarmingbein00shel Year: 1880 ENSILAGE. ]S5 the maoliineiy ci£ the (hyer are di-iveii by an engine; the rest of the arranirement is elearly enouo-h seen in the iUustration. The quantity of hay that this machine will make in a day depends on the degree of wetness in the hay; it is, as a rule, better to let the hay be partly made in the field and to finish it off iu the machine, if this can be done in the wet weather, during which the machine is valuable; and of this half-made hay the machine will get through a load an hour, while freshly-cut grass would take a longer time. The machine is not designed to supereede the ordinary method of hay-making in good weather, but to continue the work when the weather is such that it is impossible to save the hay in the usual way. The inventor has received many testimonials as to the efficiency of his machine fi'om practical agriculturists iu this and other countries. We have seen Mr. Gibbs put green grass, and afterwards badly- weathered and thoroughly-wetted hay, into his machine; the former came out sweet-smelling, well-made green hay, and the latter a tolerable article, very much improved in the process, which lasted some four or five minutes. The invention is clearly one of great value and merit. Ensildf/e.—The following very curious system of storing green fodder is of Hungarian origin, and was introduced to the notice of British farmei-s by Professor Wriglitson, in an article contributed to the Journal of the Royal Agri- cultural Society in the year 1S7J-. The system consists in cramming the green food, of what- ever description, tightly down into deep and wide trenches that have been dug in the ground, and the wetter the fodder is the better its packing and preservation; when cut out in winter it is found to be a rich brown colour, very palatable to stock, and it is known under the unattract
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