HAYING MACHINERY 



BALING PRESSES 



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262. Development. Many patents were granted on baling 

 presses during the early half of the past century, indicating the 

 rise of the problem of compressing hay into a form in which it 

 could be handled with greater facility. It was not, however, 

 until 1853 that H. L. Emery, of Albany. N. Y., began the manu- 



FIG. 142 A LIGHTER SLING CARRIER LOADED WITH A SLING LOAD OF HAY 



facture of hay presses. It is stated that this early machine had 

 a capacity of five 25O-pound bales an hour and required two 

 men and a horse to operate it. It made a bale 24 X 24 X 48 

 inches. 



The next man to devote his efforts toward the development 

 of a hay press with any success was P. K. Dederick, who began 

 his work about 1860. He produced a practical hay press. 



