MEASUREMENT OF HAY. 



There is no accurate mode of measuring hay but by 

 weighing it. This, on account of its bulk and character, 

 is very difficult, unless it is baled or otherwise compacted. 

 This difficulty has led farmers to estimate the weight by 

 the bulk or cubic contents, a mode which, from the nature 

 of the commodity, is only approximately correct. Some 

 kinds of hay are light, while others are heavy, theft equal 

 bulks varying in weight. But for all ordinary farming 

 purposes of estimating the amount of hay in meadows, 

 mows, and stacks, the following rules will be found sufficient. 



