166 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
where a couple of thousands of acres of hay are raised. Last year a 
man down there had a thousand dollars worth of volunteer grasses on 
his farm, and that hay is standing on his farm to-day, rotting. 
The CHartrman. There is no market for it? 
Mr. Sprtuman. He is too far from his market. He can not sell it. 
The CHarrman. You could not change that? 
Mr. Sprtuman. You can have thedistance from the market practically 
reduced by the doubling compress, by the compression of his product 
by machinery into a smaller compass, for transportation. 
Mr. Bowir. Does that compress require a patent? 
Mr. Sprutman. There are at least two such machines that I know of. 
The CHarrman. Do yousuppose that these machines can travel around 
and bale hay ? 
Mr. Srrtitman. Oh, yes. 
Mr. Scorr. It will not be in the nature of a cotton press? 
Mr. Serttman. Yes. And by the way, I think one of those machines 
was invented by the cotton press company. 
Mr. Scorr. But youdonot carry the cotton press around to the farms 4 
Mr. Sprutuan. No; the only thing I want to do is to have this matter 
looked into, and let the public know that this is being done, so that it 
will become generally known. And the result will be that a market 
will be made for these poor fellows who can not sell their hay. 
Mr. Wricat. Would not the patentee pay the expense of getting 
that before the public? 
Mr. Sprutman. Yes; but you understand that an advertisement does 
not carry quite as much force with it as does a bulletin from the 
Department of Agriculture. 
The Cuarrman. As Doctor Galloway said a few minutes ago, you 
ue ei the country with bulletins and they would not really reach 
the people. 
Mr. Spruitman. Yes; we need to impart visible information as well 
as bulletins. 
Mr. Havueen. Do you need money for the bulletins? 
Mr. Sprutman. Yes; and I need the traveling expenses to have one 
of my men, the best man we have there, to go and get illustrations of 
these things and get the facts about them, and write up and publish a 
small bulletin. I want to see that that is put out in proper form. 
There is one State in the Union that has a law governing the method 
of finding out how much hay there is in a stack of hay. I have no 
doubt that the men who passed that law had the best intentions in the 
world, but that law cheats the farmer out of 40 per cent of his hay. 
The Cuarrman. What is that method? 
Mr. Srruiman. It is measuring the distance on the ground from 
one side of the stack to the other and multiplying that by four and then 
by the height. 
Mr. Scorr. What State is it that has this law? 
Mr. Sprttman. New Mexico. No, no; it is just a Territory. I find 
there has never been any investigation to determine the measurement 
of the stack. 
The Cuarrman. We estimate the width and the length, and estimate 
the height. A stack of fine hay is 500 or 600 cubic feet according 
to the quality of the hay. : 
Mr. Spriimay. | have a definite rule that will give you, with the 
accuracy of 1 per cent, the amount of cubic feet in the hay. 
