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FIELD CURING OF HAY
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Field Curing of Hay
The aim of the hay maker is to dry the crop 25 per cent moisture or less with as little loss of leaves, green color, and nutrients as possible. Hay crushers or conditioners crush the stems between rolls, which shortens the drying time by one third to two thirds. This reduces curing losses. The crushers are towed by a tractor during or after mowing, or a combination mower-crusher is used. Loss of leaves is more pronounced with legumes than with grasses, especially when the moisture content is 30 per cent or less. The loss of alfalfa leaves begins when the moisture content of the hay drops below 40 per cent.
In the 1st century A.D, Columella described the curing of hay in a manner which indicates that hay making has changed very little.
It is best to cut down hay before it begins to wither; for you gather a larger quantity of it, and it affords a more agreeable food to cattle. But there is a measure to be observed in drying it, that it be put together neither over-dry, nor yet too green; for, inthe first case, it is not a whit better than straw, if it has lost its juice; and, in the other, it rots in the loft, if it retains too much of it; and often after it is grown hot, it breeds fire and sets all in a flame. Sometimes also, when we have cut down our hay, a shower surprises us. But, if it be thoroughly wet, it is to no purpose to move it while it is wet; and it will be better if we suffer the uppermost part of it to dry with the sun. Then we will afterwards turn it, and, when it is dried on both sides, we will bring it close together into cocks, and so bind it up in bundles; nor will we, upon any account, delay to bring it under a roof.
The leaves of alfalfa apparently do not function in the withdrawal of moisture from the cut stems. The moisture loss in alfalfa stems with the leaves attached is about the same as when the leaves are removed. In legumes with large stems, such as sweetclover and soybeans, the leaves may aid in the withdrawal of water from the stems.
Thus the explanations article about Field Curing of Hay.
Hope it is useful. . . .
HAPPY LEARNING . . . . .
SOURCE:
Book Principles of Field Crop Production | John H. Martin - Warren H. Leonard | COLLIER Macmillan (1967)
Okay, on this occasion Ahli Artikel will present an article entitled Field Curing of Hay. Please read the article below
Field Curing of Hay
The aim of the hay maker is to dry the crop 25 per cent moisture or less with as little loss of leaves, green color, and nutrients as possible. Hay crushers or conditioners crush the stems between rolls, which shortens the drying time by one third to two thirds. This reduces curing losses. The crushers are towed by a tractor during or after mowing, or a combination mower-crusher is used. Loss of leaves is more pronounced with legumes than with grasses, especially when the moisture content is 30 per cent or less. The loss of alfalfa leaves begins when the moisture content of the hay drops below 40 per cent.
In the 1st century A.D, Columella described the curing of hay in a manner which indicates that hay making has changed very little.
It is best to cut down hay before it begins to wither; for you gather a larger quantity of it, and it affords a more agreeable food to cattle. But there is a measure to be observed in drying it, that it be put together neither over-dry, nor yet too green; for, inthe first case, it is not a whit better than straw, if it has lost its juice; and, in the other, it rots in the loft, if it retains too much of it; and often after it is grown hot, it breeds fire and sets all in a flame. Sometimes also, when we have cut down our hay, a shower surprises us. But, if it be thoroughly wet, it is to no purpose to move it while it is wet; and it will be better if we suffer the uppermost part of it to dry with the sun. Then we will afterwards turn it, and, when it is dried on both sides, we will bring it close together into cocks, and so bind it up in bundles; nor will we, upon any account, delay to bring it under a roof.
The leaves of alfalfa apparently do not function in the withdrawal of moisture from the cut stems. The moisture loss in alfalfa stems with the leaves attached is about the same as when the leaves are removed. In legumes with large stems, such as sweetclover and soybeans, the leaves may aid in the withdrawal of water from the stems.
Thus the explanations article about Field Curing of Hay.
Hope it is useful. . . .
HAPPY LEARNING . . . . .
SOURCE:
Book Principles of Field Crop Production | John H. Martin - Warren H. Leonard | COLLIER Macmillan (1967)
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