Hay harvesting methods and costs / by Robert E. Marx and James W. Birkhead.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marx, Robert E.
Corporate Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Other Authors: Birkhead, James W. (James Wesley), 1916-
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : [U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1951.
Series:Circular (United States. Department of Agriculture) ; no. 868.
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Table of Contents:
  • Scope of study. pp. 1.
  • Objectives. pp. 2.
  • Areas and farms studied. pp. 3.
  • Practices in seeding and curing hay. pp. 7.
  • Cutting hay. pp. 10.
  • Raking hay. pp. 16.
  • Methods of putting up hay. pp. 21.
  • Harvesting long loose hay stored in barns. pp. 23.
  • Harvesting long loose hay stored in stacks. pp. 39.
  • Baling hay. pp. 45.
  • Chopping hay. pp. 61.
  • Custom work in haymaking. pp. 68.
  • Ensiling hay crops. pp. 70.
  • Appendix: Procedures in computing costs. pp. 77.
  • Tables. pp. 79-122.