THE SHRINKAGE OF MARKET HAY. 5 



(3) At the Pennsylvania station (see footnote 1 , p. 4) the average 

 shrinkage of early-cut timothy hay (in bloom and stored in the barn) 

 was 25.7 per cent and of the late-cut timothy (nearly ripe) 18.8 per 

 cent; varying in the former case from 14.9 per cent to 36.5 per cent 

 and in the latter case from 15 per cent to 23.4 per cent. The aver- 

 age loss for all cases during two years was 22.2 per cent. 



(4) At the Arizona station 3 in 1906 the third crop of alfalfa from 

 the entire farm was cut and the stack completed about July 20. 

 This stack contained 23 tons and 1,796 pounds. The stack was sold 

 December 14 and at that time contained 17 tons of first-class hay 

 and 2,825 pounds of poor hay, or a total of 18 tons and 825 pounds — - 

 a shrinkage of 5 tons and 971 pounds, or 23 per cent. 



(5) At the Michigan station (see footnote 2 , p. 4) on August 31 

 and September 1, 1896, 6,110 pounds of hay were put into the barn, 

 made from clover sown in the spring of 1896. The growth had been 

 succulent, but the hay was well cured. On February 6 following, 

 during a period of damp weather, it was taken out and weighed 

 and found to have lost 22.6 per cent. A portion of it was musty 

 when reweighed. 



(6) This station also reports 2 a similar loss with timothy hay. In 

 the summer of 1887, 130.5 tons of timothy, in good condition, were 

 put into the barn. The following January 100.5 tons were baled. 

 The chaff, dirt, and short hay from under the press amounted to 

 1.5 tons. This indicates a shrinkage of 28.5 tons, or 21.7 percent. 



(7) Wale 4 found that the shrinkage of meadow hay in the stack 

 several months amounted to 17.33 per cent. Clover hay stacked 

 for several months lost from 15 to 17 per cent. 



(8) A stack of alfalfa hay, containing 19,372 pounds, was made 

 at the Colorado station 5 June 15, 1899. The following February it 

 contained 15,904 pounds, a loss of 3,468 pounds, or 17.9 per cent. 



(9) At the Utah station 6 a ton of timothy hay was weighed and 

 placed in the barn July 20. On April 20, nine months later, it 

 weighed 1,686 pounds. The loss amounted to 15.7 per cent. 



(10) At the Kansas station 7 a bag of millet hay was buried in 

 the mow from July 21 until the following March. The loss during 

 the eight months amounted to 14.25 per cent. 



(11) At the Michigan station 8 on July 6, 1898, 5,763 pounds of 

 Mammoth clover hay that had been fairly well cured the day before, 



2 Forreport of experiment see Michigan, State Board of Agriculture and Experiment Station, 1901, p. 287. 



3 Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Eighteenth Annual Report, 1907, p. 224. 

 < Journal South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, No. 18, 1909, pp. 52-53. 



s Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station, Bui. 57, 1900, p. 7. 



e Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Fourth Annual Report, 1893, p. 36. 



7 Kansas Experiment Station, First Annual Report, 1888, pp. 117-121. 



8 Michigan State Board of Agriculture and Experiment Station. Annual report, 1901, p. 286-287. 



