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PLANS FOR HAYMAKING BEST WAY IN WHICH TO GATHER NES UP CROP Three Men and Two Horses Make | Econoriical Crew and the Amount | That Can Be Handled Under Conditions Given Will Be From | 40 to 60 Acres, Depending on the | Yield. On many farms haymaking is car- on in a move or less haphazard manner, resulting In a losz 6f time, as now and then a part of the crow is idle. With small crews there is us- | {tally less loss of time than with {larger crqws, where some are Mmow- {ing and raking, loading and hauling, {and others working at the barn all lot the time | The smallest economical crew for {bringing hay from the field and pute ting it into the barn is the three-man and two-horse crew. In the t, the {eommon practice is to load the wag gon with hand forks and unload it (ith the horse fork or sling. This jarrangement allows two men to pitén ot the load and one man to build the load on the waggon and drive the {team, When the load is on, all three men go to the barn to unload At the barn one man works in the mow bne sticks the hay fork on the wag {gom, and the fhird man drives the {team on the rope. No time is lost iéxcept that lost by the two pitchers lin travelling between the barn nd ithe field. In the Bast the averag fdistance between these points is a quarter of a mile or less | On mo age-sized farms in the | East ghie gencral custom is to haul hay in the afternoon only in the tay Making With a 8mall Crew. forenoon, one man mows endugh hay | in about four hours, starting after | the dew is almost gone, for half a day's hauling, Three to five acres, yielding 1.5 tons to the aere, is about all the ordinary three-man crew can handle, ' The second man rakes every morn ing, at the beginning of the haying season, the hay that was mowed the day before. In the forenoon the third man does not work at haying at all but is free to do other farm work such as ploughing corn, ete Let us see what the effect will be | on the size of the crew if the hay | is mot cut until well past full } Bloom," 'the stage of maturity at } which hay (timothy, f example) § must be cut if choice or 'tea green" | bay i8 to be secured i May cut when past { sures quite rapidly if the | favorable, and hay mowed in the | forenoon can be put into the barn in | i i i ather is the afternoon. This arrangement re quires an extra man and two extra horses to rake the hay. To facilitate matters, the side-delivery rake should be used, go that loading can be start ed as soon as the rake has made one round. The fourth man will usually finish raking by three or four o'clock in the afternoon, amd can help load during the remainder" of the day However, three meén pitching on to one waggon ig not ordinarily a very economical arrangement, Now let us suppose that it is de- | eided to do the mowing in the after- | moon as well as the raking, and sce how this arrangement affects the size of the crew. Such a method requires another additional man or team, making a total of six, yet this larger erew will handle no more hay per day than the three-man crew above described. The amount of hay that can be handled under these conditions will 'be trom 40 to €( deres, depending up- on the yield. If {lie day leader Is edy, more hay can be bandled per The two pitchers work on the building the load, and the drives the team. as a 'Ane succulent feeds and packed n in pits for use during the win- "géayon. The practice seems to ve been common and the feed kept z ni these early times it has actice to store various in pits or airtight cen- F teeding'to stock. The silo present-day result, and a raises live stock cannot Bo without one. The ad- "the are numerous, - a re important are: succulent feed is avafl- ghout the year. es more feed for less "otlier farm building. NIAMS EMIS ANAS SACKOISRICIORS \j/ NN Ba NS NANA Sl KS 4 AN 4 JINN INIISIINIENS RAR Ses AINA ACK ISICOISISIORIBK HG atrons and Friends A Prosperous £4 5 5 a Krou AEST wn 1 Imely Admonition , OF ONTARIO se and Face the Crisis! bd PEOPLE OF ONTARIO are accustomed to acs 5 ro \ Oo copt their food mich the same as they breathe the air 92 S > They read isolated items about food shortage, but such a §% . . - a; thing as this affecting their own dinner table never enters \G { 3X their mid, and it is the responsibility of Ths Observer 57 oS to bring home to its readers a realization of tho facts, as un- en ch less sofifething is done, in another yet, they will not be & 5 ?) : 2 . i 3) A reading about the hunger in Belgium but the bLiuiger in 3 Ontario. 4 The fullowitg shoull be memdrized by every reader of Tue OBSERVEK. iT & Under the Presidency of Mr. JJ. W. Woods, a. Confir- ooh ence of all interested in fool production was held in Th. f i Mornay, M: ek vonto on Monday, May 7. »~ ¥ ~5) > . \G - ( 3 § ¢ Gry UNO pe of SA 24 Ba a RE EER VICTIM OF GERMAN "KULTUR" of Berlin, as He Baw It in London Hespital. In a London hospital I saw a little girl who had been most terribly maimed in an air raid. I am not going to dwell on the state of ie said ¥ When I think ef her I have 1] o DR \ 1 words to express the tealings that 1 BriTAIN'S NORMAL ; have. But ofie of her bands wes gone Eh art 5 ; at the wrist and the other hand was Velo] 8 BE Sante LAE NOISY ZINZIN HICK 7 2K singing to it. rial majesty of course, that the that natural The sight, I take it, would hie? been very gracious in the eyes of his impe- HXTT 452795264 lbs EERE PITAIS SHORTACE doe lo WAR CANADA NET Expaonts 12 YRS AGO 09,148,784 Lbs. Prussia--except, of little girl stil lived; d be'a drawback te verybody k nows u--ifit is ih AR! £5708, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.