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Rye Hay for Feeding 
Can rye hay be used for feeding with 
success for horses and cows, and when 
should it be cut? a. l. g. 
East Akron, Ohio. 
The following table shows the compara¬ 
tive analysis of “hay” made from grain 
cut before the heads are filled out: 
IN 100 POUNDS. 
Rye fodder. 
Protein 
2 1 
Carbo¬ 
hydrates 
12.2 
Fat 
0.5 
Oat fodder. 
2.3 
11.8 
0.8 
Wheat fodder. 
2.S 
15.1 
041 
Barley fodder. 
2.3 
11.5 
0.4 
While rye stands well with the others 
on analysis it makes the poorest “hay” 
of any of the small grains. The straw 
is tough and stiff, and stock will not eat 
it readily. It must be out early —before 
the bloom fornix —in order to make good 
fodder. Oats and wheat may be left 
until the grain is soft or “in the milk" 
and then be cut. but if rye is left to that 
6tage it will not be worth feeding. (»en- 
erally speaking, rye hay is poor stuff, 
though we have fed many tons of it 
when no other grain or grass was avail¬ 
able. 
Thrashing Clover Seed at Home 
I want some information about thrash¬ 
ing clover. When planted in wheat the 
first crop is cut for hay. The second 
crop, 1 am told, gives the seed. How is 
this crop handled and brought into the 
barn? I have now a seven horsepower 
gasoline engine and a small thrashing 
mnehin, which sets on the barn floor. It 
is an easy matter for three of us to thrash 
100 bushels of oats in an afternoon, and 
it can be done when the land is too wet 
to work and are now ambitious to thrash 
clover. We have all the riddles, wheat, 
oats, buckwheat, Soy beaus, Timothy, etc. 
Arnold, Pa. w. c. 
I ai_ certain W. C. not only enjoys 
running his little thrashing machine, but 
finds it a very handy machine to have 
on the farm, if it works well and when he 
wants it to. This waiting day after day. 
week after week, and often month after 
mouth for a custom thrasher gets on one's 
nerves, especially when feet! or money is 
needed, or when one is watching the 
bottom drop out of the' market for his 
money crop not yet thrashed. When I 
was a small boy my father had only a 
few simple tools to work his farm with. 
Nowadays a farmer needs nearly as much 
money invested in tools and machinery 
as in land, and something more needs 
adding about every year. There is al¬ 
ways some tool or machine that it seems 
we can't get along without. You cannot 
get a boy or hired man to draw manure 
without a spreader. A few years ago I 
gave two blacksmiths each a small job of 
repair work to do. A year after, when I 
had to have "hese parts, they were not 
finished, after I had called for them sev¬ 
eral times during the year. After that I 
bought a few blacksmith tools, and have 
a lot f satisfaction out of them. 
Perhaps W. C. can get more informa¬ 
tion from the maker about thrashing 
clover with his machine than from some 
one who never saw it. Most custom 
thrashers here have a special machine 
for clover hulling, built for this purpose 
only. Some have an attachment they use 
on the grain thrashers for clover seed, 
but where one has his own machine for 
grain and only needs a few bushels of 
clover seed I would try hard to make that 
machine do the work. But remember 
that a grain machine must chew or beat 
the straw up into chaff. Adjust it so this 
is done and I think you will get nearly 
all the seed. Perhaps it will need thrash¬ 
ing more than once. 
Do the tin ashing when perfectly dry. 
Feed slowly but steadily. The best place 
to thrash clover is in the lain, where the 
wind does not bother and you have a 
smooth, dry floor that can be cleaned and 
no seed wasted that way. Use a riddle 
somewhat larger than the seed, and use 
all the wind you can without blowing 
over the seed. Clean with a fanning 
mill, and here one wants exactly the 
proper sieve, one that will allow the good 
seed to pass through and the dirt and 
foul weed seeds to go over the sieve. A 
larger sieve may be used while getting 
rid of the chaff. To do good work clean¬ 
ing seed is a slow job. 
Medium is the only clover of the three 
used for hay that gives more than one 
crop a year. Mammoth and Alsike give 
one crop a year. Cut for seed a little 
later than for hay. but do not wait too 
long. 1“ c straw is eaten better by stock 
and >ue does not have to handle it so 
carefully as when dead ripe. The riper 
seed is cut the more carefully it must be 
handled. Cut and bunch when dump with 
dew or rain if very ripe. Using a loader 
is a wasteful method of gathering a seed 
crop. It can be raked and bunched as 
soon a cut, or cut and bunched by three 
men following the mower and moving the 
seed away with forks so team and mower 
do not trample it. A swatlier attached 
to the cutting bar of the mower is an¬ 
other way to get it away from team and 
mower, or cut when damp and bunch with 
forks without raking if the growth is big 
enough so it will hang together. Draw 
in same as hay. j. b. i.tstc. 
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