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Show tures for the market will cause a loss to the producer as long as the market does not want mixtures. Certain of these are discriminated against regardless regard-less of their true nutritive or feeding feed-ing value. The producer may know positively that certain mixtures are palatable and contain more total digestible di-gestible nutrients than the kinds now In greatest demand, yet he is powerless power-less to make feeders realize their value. About the only wa to avoid trouble with undesirable mixtures, says the bulletin, is for the producer to cease grow ,g them and to produce only the kind In demand In the markets to which Ills hay Is usually shipped. Copies of the bulletin may be hud free upon application to the department at Washington. D. O. PREPARATION OF HAY FOR MARKET Producers Have Suffered Great Losses Because of Use of Improper Methods. VITAL INFORMATION LACKING Product That Grades Highest and Brings Prices Is That Having Natural Nat-ural Green Color Time of Cutting Counts. (Prepared by tho United States Department of Agriculture.) What to do with low-grade hay has long been a vexing problem to the hay trade. Losses running Into the thousands thous-ands of dollars annually have been suffered suf-fered by producers because of the difficulty dif-ficulty encountered In disposing of hay that is Improperly prepared for market, mar-ket, or Is of a mixture that causes it to be regarded as of a low grade. In Department Bulletin 077, "Marketing "Mar-keting Hay at Country Points," recently recent-ly Issued by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, the failure to remedy this situation Is ascribed to two chief reasons: The producer and the dealers do not yet agree as to what constitutes quality In hay, and many producers lack vital market Information Informa-tion regarding the preparation of hay for terminal and consuming markets. Color Counts Most. Quality of hay Is at present Indicated In-dicated largely by Its color, which Is used to gauge the stage of maturity at which It is cut The hay that grades highest, and consequently brings the most money, Is usually that having the best natural green color. Hay dealers can often tell from the color whether hay was cut early, medium, or late, and In their opinion the best hny Is the early cut hay and the poorest that which was cut late. The average hay grower, however, in some sections at least, does not ngree with the terminal market theory of quality as Indicated by color. Many " ' J"v "1 Is ' t :.t' " 'V ' ill f 1 . - 'i -CIS-" v 1 . t ; : . Inspecting a Car of Hay. producers prefer medium or late cut hay, especially for horses, because It Is easier to cure and not as "washy" as early cut hay. In some markets size and weight of bales Is an Important factor, since there is sometimes a difference of several sev-eral dollars a ton in the same grade of hay In smnll or large bales. The reasons for the demand for certain sizes and weights are numerous and not always based on facts, it Is said. However, as In many other kinds of trading. It pays the seller to aim to meet the desires of the buyer. Undesirable Mixtures Cause Loss. The production of undesirable mix- |