By BRIAN BAKER THORTON Haying has always been one of the most in teresting if sometimes frus trating jobs on the farm and one that city folk find especial ly intriguing When an Allandale imple ment dealer early this summer delivered new forage harvester to us fully equipped with electronic and hydraulic controls lus rather sophisticate metal detector that prevents wire or other metal going through and being chopped up in the feed lcould not help but think of all the changes have seen in hay making just since was boy still going to public school One of my first experiences in haymaking was being shown by neighbor Milt Betteridge how to make coils of hay before an impending storm by putting one forkful of hay on top of the other like minature stack Despite driving rain of over an inch we picked these coils of hay up built them onto the wagon and hauled them to the barn finding the hay had shed the water perfectly The hay looked as dry and clean as if it had never been rained on On our own farm one of my favorite jobs was raking the freshlymade hay but by the horsedrawn mower couple of days before into windrows with the sulky rake Sulky rakes were built like great irontoothed combs with concave of curved teeth which gathered up ninefoot width of hay until it was full where upon you kicked little lever with your foot and this engaged wheel dogs that lifted the rake and let the hay out behind in everllengthening windows across the field One day drove the horse too close to the fence One wheel of the rake struck tree stump the other wheel kept going the wooden shaft or tongue broke and my dad couldnt stop laughing because he said looked so funny the way my arms and legs flailed as sailed off into windrow of hay On another occasion was delegated to cut the grass around the wire fence adjoining our house yard warning me not to get too close to the fence thought would do real sharp job and drive close to the fence Iwas just congratulating myself on how close was driv ing when the end finger of the mower caught For some reason the mower seemed to rear up into the air and rolled off backwards almost on top of our old dog Buster Black horses Pearl and Ted dy just seemed to know something was wrong and stopped BYIIAND At first all the hay had to be forked onto the flatbottomed wagons by hand straight from the windrows Like most other people we built the hay onto the wagon on to four long sling ropes The four bundles each held one third of ton of hay By means of 150foot barn rope system of pulleys and twowheeled car running on an iron track from one end of the barn to the other in the top of the barn each bundle or sling of hay could be pulled up to the top of the barn where the car and bundles of hay was sent along the track above the mow into which the hay could be dumped by yanking on trip rope gold as were tough Haying changes from pitchfoking to electronics For some time we used our Ford Car to pull the bundles up Others used horse few who had them used tractors As sling of hay went up to the top of the barn you had to stand well back because if it tripped when it reached the top of the barn before it rolled out over the mows it would come back down with terrific rush which has been known to break wagon in half Once while pulling the loads of hay up the gangway into the threshfloor of the hay barns above the stables below two of the horses Mike and Nip slid off the gangway onto the top of the well the top of which lucki ly held while my father went to the horses rescue and cut them free from their harness It was some job BALER NEEDED As we grew increasing amounts of hay the 80000 cubic foot space of our double barn became inadequate hence for years Lambert Willson Cookstown brought his round baler down and baled our hay while we traded and combined his grain These bales rolled up like giant 80pound cigarettes had the great advantage that you could bale up several fields and leave the bales out for days or weeks of wet weather without affecting the qaulity More care had to be exercised in storing them in the barn because there had been cases of them pushing out the sides of barns So well did these bales shed the rain that one neighbor who left his out all winter fed them next spring with less than 10 per cent spoilage Lambert had one of the first automatic bale loaders on the market Today there are Arts and crafts festival held in Angus Steve Symms of the Angus Lions Club checks on the iIOpound haunch of beef which was being cooked during the arts and crafts festival held at the Lions Hall Highway 90 Angus Satur day The event was sponsored by the AngUs Interest League to raise money for the Essa Township Arena Fund Examiner Photo Upgrade parliamentary coverage Mitges tells newspaper oWners Gus Mitges MP for Grey Simcoe riding feels its high time newspaper owners up graded their responsiblibities for the betterment of their staff here Ottawa In his latest report from Parliament Hill Mitges cites an observation by veteran col umnist Douglas Fisher that because of inadequate pay and poor working conditions the turnover of reporters in Ottawa is high about fouranda half times that of members of parliament Many reporters leave to take betterpaying positions in the various government depart ments in public relations and other such areas HAYS TRAVEL SERVICE 7284700 45 Dunlop St Next to the Theatre If Mr Fishers information is correct and dont doubt that it is then its up to the newspapers hiring the re porters to make theirjobs more attractive to reduce the high turnover After all the federal government is already sub sidizing the parliamentary press gallery to the tune of some $250000 year in free ac comodations in the House free telephone service for anywhere in Canada office equipment and many other services Mitges says According to the Grey CALL MISS EDITH PAGE ORILllA ONTARIO 3259555 Adults only Tomorrow Florida Mobile Home Seminar Whats it like to live in Florida in an adult mobile home community Learn about renting vs buying your own lot What are the costs NORMAN NOLME REAL ESTATE lTD 97 MISSISSAGA STREET EAST Refreshments and Colour Film INFORMATIVE SEMINAR SHOWING Thursday July 1977 730 PM Holiday Inn ORILLIA Simcoe MP strong media is needed to counteract the pressures of those who would like nothing better than to manage the news to suit their own purpose Ive hear it said since Ive been in Ottawa that the Parliamentary press gallery is perhaps the tamest in the world This may be true of some of the new and inexperienced members who make up the greatest number but not so of the more experienced longtime members like Charles Lynch and Douglas Fisher Checking some of the electronic controls on his new Pennsylvanianbuilt forage harvester featuring builtin metal detection equipment which instantly stops the intake rollers before not after any foreign metal or wire goes through the cutting head is Jim Baker writers father Thornton Baker Fire to Simcoe North MP Attac OTTAWA Dr Rynard Progressive Conser vative MP for Simcoe North says the federal government would have Canadians believe that no one is responsible for the illegal breakin at the Agence Presse Libre in Mon treal in 1972 He said SolicitorGeneral Francis Fox refuses to see anything wrong with his state ment that there is no min isterial responsibility for the RCMP break in of 1972 both at the level of those who did the breakin and at the highest level the failure to inform the solicitorgeneral at that time JeanPierre Goyer There it stands he said No one seems to be responsi ble However Dr Rynard com plimented Fox saying he defended well bad cause ks several government showrng determination ap parently to protect anymore FrenchCanadians from getting into trouble in that province Rynard also attacked the governments position on the Quebec governments proposed language legislation The secretary of state says there is bilingual policy for all of Canada including Quebec Rynard said yet he then says unilingual language policy and they would have to have time to Quebec has bring it in METRICATION Rynard also advised the federal government to take lesson from the United States government on metrication Pewter catches up to silver in price TORONTO CP Although pewter used to be an in expensive altemative to silver inflation has pushed up tin prices in the last two years to the point where pewter and sil ver are comparably priced OF FINE FOOTWEAR NATURALIZ JOYCE BANDOLINOS ClARKS Choose from summer footwear of soft and light leather in colors Bone Beige White Tan and MultiTones NATURALIZERS JOYCE BANDOLINOS Other Lines Wide Selection Rog $I998$2498 All HANDBAGS IN STOCK Gloou from In good selection of styles SAVE $6 $10 $19 SAVE $5 $I0 $14 20 WALKWEL PUT YOUR FEET IN OUR SIIOES 58 Dunlop St Downtown Barrio 7282397 FREE PARKING FRIDAY NIGIIT AND SATURDAY says Tham Iai tun of Ma laysia Mrs lai hun who visited Toronto recently is master pcwtersmith WE ARE IIERE I28 BROCK machines that throw bales right into the wagon others that automatically build them into wagon so that they can be automatically unloaded onto an elevator that takes them into the barn others that build them onto special carriers that dump the loads of bales into stacks as well as automatic bale stookers ending the need for manual handling of bales HUGE BALES 0n the farm of Albert Keli and Sons we noted giant round baler at work making huge bales up to threequarters of ton These can be stored outside all winter and are ideal for feeding to beef and dairy cattle in yard ma ngers Hydraulic compression chamber wagons into which hay is blown by special forage harvester pickup and which form selfstoring stacks of up to six tons each are becoming in creasingly popular in Simcoe County because no expensive barn storage is required to store the hay according to Wm Kell For years we had square baler usually baling and loading the bales straight from the baler onto the wagon or trailing bale buncher and dumping them off in windrows to be stood up into long stooks sometimes sofeet long in heavy crop These though much more prone to weather damage in the field could be built like bricks into the mow their oblong shape allowing them to be built like cliff with an unsupported face 16 to 20 feet high INJURED FINGERS One day while pulling load of bales up into the barn with me guiding the drawbar of the Each state the told the central government it would not spend $100 million to confuse and both their people and make them pav for it he said By refusing to yield to the re quests of the electorate to cancel the metrication pro gram Rynard said the federal government allows de mocracy to go into creeping autocracy where only the government knows best He said the metrication is just one more example of the Trudeau governments care less spending of millions of dollars The spending habits of the Trudeau government he add ed have made Canada one of the heaviest taxed industrial nations in the world DUNLOP ST momma gig UNblMITED IS CLOSING ITS SHOWROOM ALL LAMPS FIXTURES SHADES ARE ON SALE AT TREMENDOUS SAVINGS COME EARLY FOR BEST SELECTION BUY NOW FOR LATER OCCASIONS AND SAVE wagon tripped and my hand went into the pulley and cable Luckily it was just at the end of the pull and got away with just severely cut fingers which still go numb in cold winter weather Of all the variations in modern haymaking tech niques not one of them holds the perfect answer all have their advantages and disad vantages right back from the first great improvement the truck or tractor mounted buckrake that could sweep up ton of loose hay in the time it took to drive across field of hay windrows to the hay pelleting machine which using hydraulic stamps compresses hay into small pellets that can be shovelled or augered anywhere automatically The McKee Brothers former ly of Cookstown brought the first truly automatic oneman haying system to Canadian farmers when they designed the McKeeHarvestcr huge wagon with combined forage harvester head that could be reversed for unloading and blowing directly into the barn without handling For some 10 years like some other farmers in the county we now use forage harvester to make our hay The porcess is cut it with ninefoot mower conditioner windrower rake or tend the windrows two at the time with nifty revolving rake that looks like some weird giant insect and then chop it up with the forage harvester which blows the hay into trailing wagons These wagons then unload auto matically into blower at the barn with which by means of flexible blower pipe with which you can fill every corner of the the examiner Wodnooday July 1977 19 barn wrthout touching it with fork One hundred and fifty tons is lot of feed not to have to touch by hand METAL DETECTOR This spring to overcome the possibility of the cows getting metal such as wire or nails in side of them from eating hay in which this foreign material has been picked up we bought forage harvester with metal detector built into it the first of its kind to come into the county With its electronic and hydraulic controls which allows all operations of the harvester to be controlled by remote con trol from the tractor cab it is pretty fancy looking outfit But wondered would it pay for its price tag the price of luxury car We were in our third field when the intake mechanism was slammed out of gear by the electric solonoid There on the intake rollers we found foot of rusty wire enough chopped up to ruin two or three cows Stayner farmer who has also just bought one of these harvesters with metal detec tor said when the machine stopped just as 50 feet of fence wire started to go into the in take rollers It has already paid for itself Apart from the fact that even the most elaborate machinery cannot make good hay from poor or overage crop and that cows could care less how their hay is made as long as there is plenty of it cannot help but think if haying methods have changed so 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