. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. HAY AiYZ) PASTURE CROPS 99 and can perform their function of drawing water from the stems, and are not shattered off and lost. It is usually wise to cock the hay the second day, if it is too green to store, and leave in the cocks a day or two; then open up cocks for an hour or so to the sun and wind; then put under shelter, either in barn or stack. Damaged by Hot Sun.—The old adage, ''Make hay while the sun shines," is good advice, but may be overdone. Hay, especially clover, that has been
. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. HAY AiYZ) PASTURE CROPS 99 and can perform their function of drawing water from the stems, and are not shattered off and lost. It is usually wise to cock the hay the second day, if it is too green to store, and leave in the cocks a day or two; then open up cocks for an hour or so to the sun and wind; then put under shelter, either in barn or stack. Damaged by Hot Sun.—The old adage, ''Make hay while the sun shines," is good advice, but may be overdone. Hay, especially clover, that has been exposed to the sun for very long is very materially injured, as the thin leaves. Figure 47.—The hay sling in operation in unloading hay. Two or three sling loads will take oflf a large wagon-load of hay and leave very little scatterings. are dried up and lost and little is left but stems. The heat of the sun is very essential to evaporate the moisture from the leaves and stems. This may be accomplished, how- ever, by curing the hay in the cock or windrow and with- out allowing the sun to shine directly on the leaves. Cock covers may often be used with profit. It seems expensive when one first considers them, but if one con- siders that bran is worth $ or more per ton and that good clover hay is worth very nearly half as much as bran for feed, one must acknowledge that the difference in value between good and poor hay is often more than the cost of using covers. Cock covers are pieces of canvas or sheeting about four feet square, with weights sewed in each corner, so that when one is spread over a hay cock, the wind will not blow. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875-; Wilson, E. W. , joint author. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Publishing Co.
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