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Curing Hay with Canvas Covers 
I hear a great deal of complaint during 
the feeding season about hay that was 
not properly cured. Clo^ei hay is espe¬ 
cially hard to cure unless the weather is 
ideal, for I like to cut my hay with color 
to it. Even Timothy I find superior when 
cut green, or rather just past the bloom. 
I cure all of my hay in cocks, and not in 
the swath. I want my lmv air-cured. 
However, it takes longer t<> o* • bay in 
piles than when it is n nea thinly on the 
ground. Right here is where my canvas 
covers c^me in to pay their way. 
Many farmers object to investing good 
money in hay caps, especially if they have 
a large acreage in meadow, but l have 
learned from experience that it surely 
pays, and pays well. I use caps just one 
yard square, made of eight-ounce duck, 
which I buy by the bolt at 14 to 20c a 
yard. In this way each cap costs me from 
14 to 20c, besides the labor of hemming 
and weighting the corners. I just tie an 
old horseshoe in each corner with a piece 
of heavy twine, allowing it t9 hang about 
six inches from the corner. Of course 
anything will do for weight that is handy 
and sufficiently heavy. This sized cap 
covers quite a large haycock, as only the 
top need he protected. When the weath¬ 
er is bad the hay can be left under these 
covers for a week or two without the least 
injury. I find that by having these covers 
on the cocks no hay gets spoiled by the 
heaviest rains, and very little is sun- 
bleached. 
For the curing of cow-pea hay it is the 
only way of knowing that it will be 
cured successfully. I have put cow-pea 
hay in the barn, apparently in good con¬ 
dition, and in a short time I would find 
that it was not keeping, but since I began 
the use of canvas covers I have never 
been troubled with this. I have made 
these hay caps pay for themselves many 
times, both in the quality of hay and in 
convenience in handling. 
I used to lose a large amount of hay at 
times when sudden showers would often 
damage the entire crop. I now get my 
hay in when it suits me be*t, and don’t 
have to call all the hands to work so hard 
when there is threatening weather. I 
well remember several years ago I had 10 
acres of fine clover hay. and as I like 
clover hay cut rather green. I cut it be¬ 
fore it was ripe, and it would have made 
nearly two tons to the acre. The day I 
got it nicely cocked up it began to rain 
and rained continually for about 10 days. 
Of course it did not rain all this time, 
but it never stopped long at a time. At 
the end of this period my hay wasn’t 
worth hauling for anything but bedding, 
and. as I had plenty of that. I let it lie, 
and scattered it out and plowed it under. 
It was worth as feed to me at least .$10 
a ton; therefore I consider that it was a 
loss of $200. less the e<*>t of hauling and 
handling and the fertilizing value to the 
land. Two hundred caps would have 
saved every pound of it, and they would 
have cost me, including labor of making, 
not over $50. There would have been a 
great big profit on that one deal, and I 
would have had the caps left, practically 
as good as when bought, for future use in 
saving other crops. Of course. I did not 
entirely lose the crop, as it was good fer¬ 
tilizer for the soil, but I was forced to 
buy feed for my stock, which would not 
have been the case had T saved the hay. 
so I consider it a great loss. 
These caps will last for many years 
when properly cared for. After the hay¬ 
ing season is over my caps are carefully 
dried out, oiled with linseed oil and > to red 
in a dry place for the uext year. If you 
have never tried the above method, just 
try it this year for the sake of experience, 
if for nothing else, and you will always 
follow the method and be a- cranky about 
using them as I am. Years ago it used 
rather to make my feelings smart to be 
made light of about taking hold of new 
things, but I always had a desire to do 
some better way, and after having some 
years of experience I decided to let others 
do ns they liked; I would adopt such 
methods as I knew were best and most 
profitable. The use of hay caps was a 
new thing in my community when I first 
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