1901 
773 
THE “ADULTERATED'’ BALE OF HAY. 
We frequently hear stories about rocks, 
old boots and other “foreign matter” 
found In bales of hay. Is there any truth 
in such reports? 
In reference to tlie many stories you 
hear about rocks, sticks and similar 
things being packed in baled hay, we 
think nowadays that they are merely 
jokes or pure accidents. We find it is 
a very rare exception when anything 
like this happens. It used to be a fre¬ 
quent occurrence, but in the last 10 years 
we think the morale of the hay ship¬ 
pers has reached a higher level, and 
what they ship as hay is hay, and not 
full of something else inside the bales. 
Baltimore, Md. w. g. bishop & co. 
During an experience of nearly 24 
years as receivers and jobbers of hay 
from Canada and all parts of this coun¬ 
try, we recollect nothing of the kind 
coming under our own observation, but 
occasionally, or once in a great while 
we hear of somebody finding a stone in 
a bale. Once we heard of a horse’s head 
being found inside a bale, but we have 
never heard of more than half a dozen, 
if as many, cases of fraud of this kind 
in all of our 24 years. We regret to say, 
however, that we often find a large quan¬ 
tity of hay seed in the middle of the 
bales, and this is as much of a fraud as 
putting in stones and other heavier sub¬ 
stances. We find the greatest risk in 
buying hay from strangers to be the 
danger of “short weights,” and many 
buyers have been caught in this way. 
MACKENZIE & WINSLOW. 
Pall River, Mass. 
Stories that you hear about rocks, 
sticks and similar things being packed 
in baled hay may sometimes be jokes, 
but my experience, covering a period of 
30 years, proves that they are not al¬ 
ways jokes. I have had large stones, old 
boots, sticks and cordwood of various 
dimensions brought to me by my cus¬ 
tomers with the assertion that they 
were found in baled hay. I believe, how¬ 
ever, that these are only isolated cases, 
and that the majority of baled hay is 
free from them. The hay in which a 
number of heavy stones were found, was 
furnished me by a man whose honesty 
could not be questioned. The hay was 
baled in an old-fashioned hand press, 
and when the attention of the shipper 
was called to the fact that large stones 
had been found in the hay, he investi¬ 
gated the matter, and found it was due 
to a rivalry among the men employed 
on his farm as to who could press the 
heaviest bales, it being considered a test 
of strength. I have heard of fish being 
stuffed with stones to make them weigh 
heavy, but this is the only case I have 
ever heard of where very large stones, 
weighing 60 or more pounds each, as 
these did, were used to make heavy 
bales of hay. s. d. Andrews’ son. 
Providence, R. I. 
As far as the packing of stones, sticks 
or other objectionable articles into bales 
of hay is concerned, the complaints we 
receive therefrom are so few that we 
hardly ever consider it seriously. How¬ 
ever, if we go away back in the hay 
business 10 or 20 years, we remember 
it to be a common occurrence to find 
almost anything, from a dead chicken 
to a rock of almost unlimited size in the 
center of the bales, but that is, at the 
present time, what we call a “has been.” 
Of recent years the shippers and receiv¬ 
ers have become better acquainted with 
each other, to such an extent that com¬ 
plaints of any kind are, and can easily 
be traced back to the original trickster; 
this being a fact, it has naturally 
stopped such nuisances to a certain ex¬ 
tent. The only time it ever occurs is 
when a new hay presser begins business, 
or new men are employed who do the 
act thinking it a practical joke. It is 
not always the farmer who is to blame 
when his hay does not come ou^correct, 
either in weight or tjie. _c<JfttetLts that 
may have been put thereinn'^^The press- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
ing of hay has become a separate or spe¬ 
cial business, and is carried on in a great 
many instances by persons not connect¬ 
ed with the farmer in any way, either 
in the shipping or selling of this com¬ 
modity, and they, of course, care little 
what may result when the hay reaches 
the consumer. It, however, only takes 
the new comer a short while to learn of 
the putting-up methods, and to satisfy 
the consumer he is compeiled to put 
the hay up in proper form or accept any 
deductions made by the receivers. 
GEO. N. REINHARDT & CO. 
New York. 
In all my experience in handling baled 
hay during the past 15 years (several 
hundred cars per year) there never has 
come to my knowledge a case where we 
have found stone or other makeweights 
baled up with hay for the intent pur¬ 
pose of fraud. Only the other morning 
our men ran a hay knife through the 
cutter, and neither the man pitching, 
nor the man feeding the cutter with his 
hands, discovered it until it was in the 
cutter; so it is possible sometimes for 
some small stones or horse shoes, that 
may be gathered up with the horse rake, 
to get into the press, but any man ac¬ 
customed would quickly make the dis¬ 
tinction between these things and some¬ 
thing that was large enough to need 
special help to get in. There have been 
undoubtedly a few cases of the kind, but 
I believe they are well out of date, and 
fully as much or more trouble now 
comes from ignorance of what consti¬ 
tutes different grades of hay, on the part 
of the balers in the country, many of 
them never having had the chance to see 
well-graded hay in our large hay mar¬ 
kets. Such a visit would clear up the 
mystery to many a man who accuses un¬ 
justly the commission man, and the buy¬ 
er of his hay whoever he may be, by 
showing him his own by the side of bet¬ 
ter and correctly defined grades. We all 
judge things by comparison, and the lack 
of this opportunity in the hay business, 
I believe to be the source of much so- 
called fraud. We have bought hay from 
many shippers in Canada, New York, 
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Michi¬ 
gan, and had there been foreign sub¬ 
stances in the bales we certainly should 
have heard from it, quick and direct. 
Dealers in baled hay, car lots, usually 
protect themselves against short weights 
and off grades, but the risk on frauds 
from stones, etc., would be considered 
so small as not to be mentioned; in fact, 
if we bought a man for the price of a 
small rock we would think that we got 
him cheap enough. The same rule ap¬ 
plies to buying hay that fits in all com¬ 
mercial transactions; buy of men who 
have a reputation and are known to be 
reputable dealers, and keep clear of 
those who are on the dishonest side, or 
even those who seem to be on the fence. 
Union City, Pa. w. l. mitchell. 
drowned. This so decimated the 
strength of the colonies that the bees 
could not store any considerable amount 
of honey. Taking it all in all, migra¬ 
tory bee-keeping has not proven to be 
profitable. The little item referred to, 
like a good many other newspaper ac¬ 
counts, is only partially true, 
E. R. ROOT. 
Fancy Prices for Apples. 
D. IF. R., Hickman, Ky.—l have about 250 
bushels of select WInesap apples. I wish I 
could place them at the extra fancy prices 
The R. N.-Y. mentions. I am familiar 
with many varieties of apples and know 
none that approaches the Winesap as a 
cooker. The sauce is nectar rich, aromatic, 
and truly of a winy flavor. Will you sug¬ 
gest a way for me to place my apples 
where they would bring high prices? 
Ans. —The prices quoted were of 
course retail. No one here would pay 
such prices to a stranger, or buy that 
quantity of fruit without sampling it. 
The restaurants and hotels like to buy 
produce of commission men. They can 
see the goods, and thus they know just 
what they are buying. Most of them 
have few facilities for storing fruit and 
want their supplies delivered in small 
lots. At present, your best plan will be 
to correspond with some good commis¬ 
sion man and make a bargain with him 
to handle the apples. There is a scarcity 
of fine fruit this year, and those Wine- 
saps ought to bring a good price. 
More About the Clark Grass. 
n. L. C., Cumberland, Me.—M.T. G. M. 
Clark gives on page 708 some figures 
about his hay crop. Does it not strike 
you that $16 per ton is quite a high 
average for hay in the barn for the last 
12 years, or that $9 will do all the work 
to an acre of ground that Mr. Clark claims 
to have done, page 70S? I have been work¬ 
ing eight acres the past Summer, harrow¬ 
ing every two weeks, and now that It is 
sowed I find the cost way ahead of that 
price. If $9 will fit an acre of Mr. Clark’s 
ground, what does he allow per day for 
team and man? 
Ans. —In making my estimate for 12 
years on a certain section of my hay- 
field I have figured the grass at $12 per 
ton, and found that at that price the 
profit on seven acres for the 12 years is 
$5,581.40, but if I had figured it at $16 
the profits would have been $7,433.40. I 
have never figured in my estimates as 
high a price as what I actually received. 
As to the cost of labor, if H. L. C. should 
use the same tools that I use he would 
find that at 30 cents an hour for a man 
and team, which I figure for common 
farm labor, it would not cost him $9. 
I have always given figures favorable to 
the producer when proper tools have 
been used. If he will use the double- 
action harrow he will find that it will 
not cost him two-thirds the price that 
I have named. qeorge m. clark. 
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Migratory Bee Keeping. 
Several Readere.—We have seen an article 
in some of the papers giving the story of 
a northern bee-keeper who keeps his bees 
at the North as long as the honey flow 
lasts, and then carries them to Cuba, 
where they continue to work during the 
remainder of the year. Is there any truth 
in this report? 
Ans. —There is and has been what is 
known as migratory bee-keeping, that 
is to say, tne owner of 100 colonies may, 
after the bees have gathered all the 
honey in one locality, or when the sea¬ 
son has finally closed, remove these 
same bees either by rail or by boat, to 
a southern climate where the season is 
just beginning again. In this way he is 
able to get two crops instead of one. Mr. 
C. 0. Perrine, about 20 years ago, tried 
this plan on a large scale. The whole 
apiary was put on a good-sized raft on 
the Mississippi. The bees would be left 
for a couple of weeks in one location and 
then moved southward to catch another 
honey fiow, but the experiment proved 
to be disastrous, because the bees 
dropped down into the water and were 
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