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hay-caps with good results. I have one hundred made 

 of cotton sheeting, two yards square, with pins attached 

 to the four corners with strong twine ; the hundred 

 cost me just forty dollars. I think they have saved me 

 twenty dollars this year. I had at one time this season 

 one hundred and thirty cocks standing out in a six 

 days' storm. One hundred were covered, and, not 

 having caps enough, thirty were left uncovered. The 

 uncovered was worth but little, while the covered was 



Fig. 171. Hay-caps. 



passable hay. I stocked some oats, which I capped. 

 They stood a two days' rain without injury." And 

 another : " Our caps are made of heavy five-fourths 

 cotton cloth, cut square, with four little loops, through 

 which we run a slim wooden pin into the hay-cock. 

 The pins hold it better than weights in the corner. 

 Ours cost twenty-one cents apiece. Have saved the 

 cost in one storm this season." 



" In reply to your question as to the utility of hay- 

 caps," says another farmer, " it gives me pleasure to 



