Salt Lake Herald | 1895-08-09 | Page 2 | Time to Cut Hay

TIME TO COT HAY Every uptodate farmer knows that the best balanced and most palatable hay is made by early cuting but he knows also that the early cuting is done at some expense in weight that is to say a given area will yield fewer pounds although these pounds will be altoug richer in potein and will b consumed with greater avidity by farm animals than when the cutting is late Careful cuttns I experIment at several stations indicate indi-cate that the difference in weight between cutting hay when barely in I full bloom and that which It done from two to three weeks later amounts to as much as 20 per cent This is not true of alfalfa hay Whether one pends upon the use that is to be made of the hay I it is to be consumed on the farm especially I it is to b fed to dairy cows which appreciate and give returns for a toothsome appetizing I ap-petizing article as near like June grass a it can be made then it is wise to cut early but cutting early is a good I deal like fattening pork for a streak of fat and a streak of lean I is well I to do both for home supplies but it does not pay to do either for sale i when the market does not appreciate I either hay cut in early bloom or the pig that is fed just as he ought to be In most markets if hay is clean and not discolored by rain or dew i makes I very little or no difference so far as price is concerned at what stage it is cut So long as the market is not appreciative I ap-preciative of the difference and does I not recognize it in the price made I there is little inducement to sacrifice tonnage to quality But where the hay is to be fed at home or the pork is for the farmers own fall killing then pains can be taken to make the best I and it will pay to take them