Show Expert Tells Better Way Yay to Measure leasure Hay WASHINGTON June 14 In 14 In the Ute western and great plains states where range stock Is brought into the valleys valles In the fall to be wintered on alfalfa stubble and hay cattlemen customarily customarily custom custom- arlly buy hay In the stack The U. U 6 S. department of agriculture has found bund that the usual methods of estimating the quantity of hay In the stack are Inaccurate and it has formulated a anew anew anew new system of measurement W W. H. H Hosterman hay marketing specialist of ot the department has classified class class- flied Hied haystacks into three types according ac ac- cording g to their general shape and employs width length and in obtaining estimates The over measurements Is the distance from the ground on one side over the top to the ground on the other side To obtain In cubic feet teet the volume of a square topped flat-topped stack he subtracts five fifty-five hundredths of ot the width from six fifty-six hundredths of ot the and multiplies the result by the th width and length To the volume of ot a high topped round-topped stack he uses the same general method method method meth meth- od but substitutes six forty hundredths hundredths hundredths hun hun- of the width and two fifty-two hundredths of the for tor forthe forthe the corresponding figures Low round- round topped stacks are estimated In the same way as high topped round-topped stacks of the width replaces the corresponding correspond correspond- ing figure in the previous formula The new of ot estimating has been checked by the department and by the agricultural experiment stations in California Idaho 1 Minnesota Montana Montana Montana Mon Mon- tana aiXa Nevada ta Oregon South Dakota and lum With h In Ilk all Ill cases l the es estimates estimates estimates es- es were ere within 5 per cent of the accurate measurement Mr Hosterman has prepared a table showing the number of ot cubic feet teet of stacked alfalfa timothy and wild hay respectively required to weigh a ton and also a table of ot volumes of f f round haystacks of ot varying dimensions The department has published the tables and detailed description of Mr Hosterman's method of ot estimating haystacks haystacks haystacks hay hay- stacks In leaflet L 72 measuring hay hay- stacks starks This leaflet is available free tree to those requesting it from the U. U S. S depal de- de pal of agriculture Washington D.C. D D. C C. |