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HAY MAKING
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Hay Making
Hay Making| Most hay is cut with tractor mowers or windrowers, but self-propelled mower-crusher-windrowers also are avaible. Hay is cured in the mowed swath or windrow, or in windrow after raking, but occasionally in handmade cocks or in bunches made from the windrow with a hay rake or buckrake. The windrowing of mowed swaths is done mostly with a side-delivery rake, or with a buncher attached to the mower. When the hay is wetted by rain while in the swath, it may be stirred with a machine called a tedder. When the windrow becomes soaked through, it may be turned over to dry, preferably with a side-delivery rake after partial drying.
Windrowing relatively green alfalfa hay materially extend the curing period as compared with swath curing. Prolonged swath curing may result in an undue loss of leaves with a reduction of almost 10 per cent in weight, whereas in hay cured entirely in the windrow , or after 3 to 6 hours initial swath curing, only 1 to 2 per cent loss in leaves may occur. A combination of partial swath curing, followed by windrowing, seems to be the better practice. Alfalfa can be best cured by windrowing after it has dried down to 50 per cent moisture. The crop then should be raked before it becomes dry enough to shatter the leaves, which sometimes occurs before the hay is dry enough to store.
Well , that's some explanation about Hay Making, Hopefully can be useful. . .
HAPPY LEARNING. . .
SOURCE OF HAY MAKING ARTICLE:
- Book Principles of Field Crop Production | John H. Martin - Warren H. Leonard | COLLIER Macmillan (1967)
This time, Ahli Artikel will give the article titled Hay Making. To understand this article, please Check to the explanation below. . . . .
Hay Making
Hay Making| Most hay is cut with tractor mowers or windrowers, but self-propelled mower-crusher-windrowers also are avaible. Hay is cured in the mowed swath or windrow, or in windrow after raking, but occasionally in handmade cocks or in bunches made from the windrow with a hay rake or buckrake. The windrowing of mowed swaths is done mostly with a side-delivery rake, or with a buncher attached to the mower. When the hay is wetted by rain while in the swath, it may be stirred with a machine called a tedder. When the windrow becomes soaked through, it may be turned over to dry, preferably with a side-delivery rake after partial drying.
Windrowing relatively green alfalfa hay materially extend the curing period as compared with swath curing. Prolonged swath curing may result in an undue loss of leaves with a reduction of almost 10 per cent in weight, whereas in hay cured entirely in the windrow , or after 3 to 6 hours initial swath curing, only 1 to 2 per cent loss in leaves may occur. A combination of partial swath curing, followed by windrowing, seems to be the better practice. Alfalfa can be best cured by windrowing after it has dried down to 50 per cent moisture. The crop then should be raked before it becomes dry enough to shatter the leaves, which sometimes occurs before the hay is dry enough to store.
Well , that's some explanation about Hay Making, Hopefully can be useful. . .
HAPPY LEARNING. . .
SOURCE OF HAY MAKING ARTICLE:
- Book Principles of Field Crop Production | John H. Martin - Warren H. Leonard | COLLIER Macmillan (1967)
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