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Show SHOULD FARMERS OWN THEIR OWN H!AY PRESSES. Every farmer who raises any considerable con-siderable amount of hay these days, should purchase a hay press. Excepting Except-ing the .very limited market that is right at home, Ihcrjc is no market at all for unbalcd hay. There's the first argument. A hay press enables 'irmcrs to put their hay into the one form in which it can always be sold. The second argument is1 that baled hay brings a better pr.icc than unbalcd The difference is not merely the cot of baling. Farmers who arc prepared prepar-ed to do their own baling can figure on liberal compensation for their work and still have a nice margin of .profit oil' their baled hay over what they would receive for it unbalcd. The lesson, therefore, is that if you are raising hay for market, be prepared pre-pared to bale it. Don't, count your hay "made"' until you have .put it i.i the condition in which you can certainly cer-tainly market it and get the highest market price for it. . Ipflmm The InternationalHarvester company com-pany buUdsalong with thein many othejpexccllent machines, two hay presses that are well suited to the work of average farmers. They are not the 'JaVge power pess type, such as are used by large gontraet lwy balers. They are one and two-hors? SJ presses' that enable farmers to do B B their own work. They do as good ms Hi work as the professional hay balers B can turn out with their belt power presses, they do it fast enough to be B satisfactory, they can be operated H with a very small force, and best of B all, they enable each farmer to bale Hj his hay at times when it is most con- & venient or when he has no other work fl for himself and his boys to do. W, Such a hay press should not be H looked upon as an expense, like M wages' or horse hire. It should be K regarded as a pcrmandnt investment W which enables him to get more dol- K lars out of the hay field as ccrtai 1- i ly as if he .purchased additional acres i. of land. The investment needs be 1 made but once. Good one and twd- I horse presses, such as the ones abovi I mentioned, ought to last many years 1 with no cost worth mentioning or up- 8 keep or repairs. , Summarized, the L advantages arc, good wages for the I farmer and his horses at such times I as they would be earning nothing, bet- ter prices for hay, hay can be pre- 1 served better and a certain market for the hay at all times. 1 - 1 |