Baled hay history book

Antique miniature the birthday scripture bible text book. The hidden dangers of straw bale gardening the grow network. This made me curious, because as a former farmers wife, i know that hay is cut and baled in the hot summer monthsnot december. If your soil is so poor that amending, or enhancing, it with compost, fertilizers, or leaf mold makes you exhausted just thinking about it, then using straw bales for. Moisture entering the bales from the roof above is to be avoided at all cost. The balers were later put on wheels so they could be taken to the hay, but the process still required a man to drive the tractor, a baler operator to push hay into the bale chamber and a couple of workers to tie the bales. We build our products with efficiency, speed, durability, and affordability in mind. Hay baling began with the invention of the first hay press in about 1850. Spread a layer of newspaper on the ground to prevent weeds from growing around the straw bales and helps ensure the twine doesnt degrade.

All the information you need to get the most out of your crop. Hay was baled for easier handling and to reduce space required for storage and shipment. Here at stinger, we are committed to providing you, the customer, with quality equipment for your haying operation. This onehorse press could bale about pounds of hay an hour. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. I would not do so even if i had an idea what palliate meant. Steve fransen and ned zaugg, washington state university. But kudzu is used in ways which might surprise you. He perfected a knotting mechanism that tied the twine after it wrapped around the bale, and he figured out how to bale hay and straw under pressure. Horsedrawn sickle mowers helped alleviated the work by cutting the crop, after which workers piled the hay into houseshaped haystacks. Ive seen some really pretty and clever methods of straw bale gardening. Hay is usually fed to an animal in place of allowing the animal to graze on grasses in a pasture, particularly in the winter or during times when drought or other conditions make pasture unavailable. This beaut of a tractor has won prizes for its owner and i still in amazing condition and earning its keep.

Joel karsten, author of straw bale gardens, straw bale solutions, and straw bale gardens complete, developed the straw bale gardening method more than 10 years ago. You also may want to get a couple of metal stakes to drive into the ground at either end of the bale for stability. For the first 3 days, simply water the bale thoroughly so it stays damp. Jul 16, 20 faced with the expense ok, and effort of building raised beds, i decided instead to go cheap and easy. Hesston has been known as the hay and forage innovator since 1955, when the company developed the first commercially available selfpropelled windrower.

Nov 23, 2019 remarks by bill nye book 1886 baled hay. The linedrawing image of bill nye, from the frontispiece of baled hay. Often, bales are configured to dry and preserve some intrinsic e. If the hay feels moist, then its not ready to bale. Actually, it took a lot of hard work to help kudzu spread so widely. The history books said james garretson and benjamin ogle were down. Do this test with the hay at the bottom of your windrow. Usually the material is cut in the field while still green and then either dried in the field or mechanically dried by forced hot air. Hayrite alfalfa is grown on high desert farms located in southern utah, certified noxious weedfree and contains no beetles. Simply add a capful to a gallon of water and pour it all on the bale. A pioneer and an entrepreneur, karsten has been featured in the new york times, national television and radio, and dozens of other major media. Stinger inc homepage, big bale stacker, bale wagons.

Hayrite produces and distributes superior grade premium alfalfa cubes from the source in milford, utah and from the hayrite warehouse in weatherford, texas to dealers and customers across the usa. Get a bale of straw not hay, which contains grass and weed seeds at your local hardware or farm supply store. Womens work book by chris crisman official publisher. And the rest is history, amply and colorfully recorded in shirks book. A history of the eagle manufacturing company e book. Straw bale gardening, is a most informative and detailed book for the avid vegetable gardener. Until that time, hay had been stored loose in the upper story of the barn, or haymow, where it took up considerable space. Hey, hey, hay is the story of those bundles of hay, a part of life many kids arent familiar with even if they live in farm country. In that time, some of the moisture leaves the hay, allowing it to be baled without decomposing. Hay, in agriculture, dried grasses and other foliage used as animal feed. This nostalgic, rhyming ode to baling hay is narrated by a girl whose broad grin makes clear her love for farm life. Since the international harvester square baler was massproduced in the 1940s, the design of the square baler has changed very little. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong. Animals that can eat hay vary in the types of grasses.

It is left to dry on the field for a short time and then raked and baled. Alberta hay and feed directory public group facebook. A joyful rhyming story about a girl and her mother and the machine. The mechanical hay press made loosehay transportation a thing of the past. I had to bail him out of jail remove water, as from a boat. Since the baled hay can be shaped into as big or small a structure as needed, and it is fairly easy to work with, it is again being looked at as a possible source for low cost building materials in rural areas where hay and straw are available. Bale is a large bound stack of material, such as hay or leather. Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for. The jackson fork was a design popular for many decades. There are now many state associations of straw or baled hay house owners throughout the country. May 09, 2017 according to clel georgetts book golden fleece in nevada, a flying boxcar with 4 tons of baled hay on board flew over tom thurnals place and tried to drop eight bales of hay in his corral.

Cropsaver hay preservative is formulated with the large hay producer in mind. Golden fields scattered with baled hay is one of my very favorite scenes in the world. When an old farmer from northern minnesota found out id written a book about haymaking he said, imagine thatthat someone could write a book about the lowly subject of making hay. Theres so much of this fastgrowing vine in the southeastern u.

Today i baled some hay to feed the sheep the coyotes eat book. Find a gift browsing history your recommendations customer service. He made round bales about 5 ft in diameter, 7 ft long, and they weighed about 600 lb after they driedabout 5 lbft. Unlike later hay presses, these permanent models often made bales weighing as much as 300 pounds. Dec, 2019 the soil beneath a pile of rotten hay or straw improves marvelously after a year or so, leaving a patch of humusrich earthwormpopulated earth. A drier book than walt whitmans leaves o grass by bill nye. History during the late 1800s and early 1900s, farming was changing dramatically with the introduction of many new machines. A few models, however, were sized and built for private use.

Jul 28, 2010 before the advent of hay balers to bale hay for feed, haying was an arduous process that used scythes and pitchforks. Baled hay a novel novelette i never wrote a novel, because i always thought it required more of a mashedraspberry imagination than i could muster, but i was the business manager, once, for a year and a half, of a little twobit novelette that has never been published. An easy test to do to see if hay is ready and bend it in half. Locate an area in your backyard or garden in full sun. The straw bale process is for the person who is tired of tilling, trying to.

Hay or grass is the foundation of the diet for all grazing animals and can provide as much as 100% of the fodder required for an animal. When tractors were invented, the hay mower was improved as well. It was originally released in september 2016 at jam mart furniture for 750 gems. Bales produced between 16% and 27% moisture will not heat and will maintain their high quality, smell and appearance when treated with cropsaver.

A large bundle of raw or finished material tightly bound with cord or wire and. Most of the earliest hay presses were stationary units built into a barn and extending two to three stories into the hayloft. Now that it covers over seven million acres of the deep south, there are a lot of people working hard to get rid of it. Today i baled some hay to feed the sheep the coyotes eat. If the walls of your straw bale home are kept dry, they will last for the life of the. Brown illustrated cloth hardcover with title on the front cover and spine. As interest grew, he became one of the most indemand garden lecturers in the country.

The history books said james garretson and benjamin ogle were down in the bottom stacking hay when they were attacked by indians. But throughout history, hay was much more than just animal feed. Hey, hey, hay a tale of bales and the machines that make them. The horizon for the hay carrier market, from infancy to maturity, was 18651942. Karsten argues that straw is an ideal container for growing vegetables. A baler, most often called a hay baler is a piece of farm machinery used to compress a cut and raked crop such as hay, cotton, flax straw, salt marsh hay, or silage into compact bales that are easy to handle, transport, and store. The leonis adobe museum is a historical monument and living history museum. We got to visit trevor bales, our hay farming friend in buckeye, az. Bail is the security deposit thats paid if someone whos been temporarily released from jail pending a trial doesnt appear.

Thanks to gavin who kindly told me of this operation, and did the work. Bill nye nye, bill, 18501896 the online books page. Beginners guide to straw bale gardening gardening with straw bales is the answer to any organic gardeners prayers. Read in english by scotty smith there can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. He taught me to drive a squeeze and showed us their barnssheds and machinery. A detailed guide to growing, harvesting, and baling hay for your homestead. Evolution of the hay fork patents for horse hay forks to grasp the hay from the wagon were first issued in 1854 and would total over 600 during the course of the loose hay handling era.

Nye baled hay drier for sale antiquarian collectible books. If the hay is ready, it will make a crunching sound and snap almost. Dec 23, 20 the history books said james garretson and benjamin ogle were down in the bottom stacking hay when they were attacked by indians. Fire risk of wet hay the recent flooding on washingtons west side requires close monitoring of stored hay for signs of spontaneous combustion. In 1936, a man known as innes of davenport, iowa pioneered an automatic, selftying baler. How to grow tomatoes in straw bales home guides sf gate. Consequently, the first people to own the machines were custom operators and hay dealers who would buy a quantity of hay from a farmer, then bale it before transporting it to market. Describes farmers in minnesota, iowa, and montana as they cut and bale hay for their cattle. The original machines were of the vertical design similar to the one photographed by greene co.

Hay that is baled with a moisture level in excess of 12 percent will result in bales that are heavy, and at risk of mould and heating. You dont even want to know how hot a hay loft is in july. Straw bale gardens have taken off over the last decade or so. By the 1930s, hay baling equipment could be pulled by tractors and pick up the hay from. Can use chain and slate style bale processor to put into windrows, or blend with straw in a vertical mixer to drastically reduce feed costs, or bale graze, or feed in bale feeders, or roll out with bale unroller. If the hay is still wet, it wont make any crunching sounds. Hay that was too wet at cutting may develop rot and mold after being baled, creating the. Bill nyes history of the united states philadelphia. In the sentence where john was about to learn that hay fever isnt the worst thing hay can do to you, weve used bail and bale incorrectly.

The strawbale search by jerilou and kingsley hammett. That all changed in the mid1800s, with invention of the first mechanical hay press. A history of the strawbale resurgence the last straw journal. How hay baler is made material, history, used, processing. When hay is cut, farmers leave it in the field and allow it to partially dry. Years before matts myhrman coauthored build it with bales with steve macdonald, long before he founded out on bale unltd with judy knox and they began publishing the last straw, and well before anything like a strawbale construction renaissance was sweeping across the nation and around the world, he and knox were working together in.

Nye and rileys railway guide chicago et al dearborn pub. Best straw bale gardening tips step by step straw bale. Though first a stationary machine, the square baler eventually evolved in the late 1930s into the machine we know today. Mar 21, 2020 if you pay attention to the trends in agriculture in rural america, you are probably aware that the number of farms in the country, which consolidated sharply between 1950 and 1970 and declined. Buyers guide to hay equipment small farm sustainability. So i called up joel karsten, author of straw bale gardens, and lead authority on all things straw. Other industry firsts have included the first hydrostatic windrower, the first centerpivot mowerconditioner and the first big square balerwhich had nearly 50 individual patents of its own. Second biennial report of iowa book of agriculture. Fred stewart operates a harobed to pick up and stack the hale baled the day before and then talks about the harobed. Bill nye baled hay a drier book than walt whitmans leaves.

A new holland businessman, henry fisher, helped raise money for the fledgling business. Heating can happen because the presence of sufficient water in the forage allows metabolic activity to continue, resulting in heat accumulation within the bale. Cutting open a bale of hay and doling it out to your horses is one of those. A history of the eagle manufacturing company ebook. Hay is humble stuff, its true, says steven hoffbeck, a history professor at minnesota state university moorhead and author of the haymakers. Then the farmer will rake the hay into what are called windrows.

Straw bale walls need to be kept dry as moisture is detrimental to not only straw, but to many building materials. Round balers hay can be baled with cropsaver hay preservative at moistures up to 30% with a round baler, extending the. A drier book than walt whitmans leaves of grass 1884 bill nyes chestnuts old and new. With womens work, crisman pairs his awardwinning, striking portrait photography of women on the job with poignant, powerful interviews of his subjects. Book 1884 nye and rileys wit and humor poems and yarns by bill nye book forty liars, and other lies by bill nye book 1883 a guest at the ludlow by bill nye book nye and rileys railway guide by bill nye book bill nyes chestnuts, old and new. Yet if that hay or straw came from a field that was sprayed with one or more persistent herbicides such as grazon or cleanwave, the vegetables in your straw bale gardens will be wrecked. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The rake hit a peak of popularity from 18351840 and for the first time in agricultures history, hay wasnt always made entirely. This appears to be a bale of hay tied together with two pieces of rope. A drier book than walt whitmans leaves o grass by whitman, walt nye, bill and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Gender equality reigns on the farm as smooth rhymes carry us through the process of haying. The first machines that baled hay baled square bales. Generally, a team of horses was used to raise a press weight, which was then dropped to compress the hay. In this video, fred stewart is using a harobed to pick up and stack the hay that tex nichols had baled the day before, which was documented in video selection 022.

Edgar wilson nye wikisource, the free online library. Haverdink fabricated the large round baler during the winter of 196566 and baled hay the following summer. Typical hay crops are timothy, alfalfa, and clover. They had to bail very fast to keep the boat from sinking. The hidden dangers of straw bale gardening the grow. Pretend that the whole food source thing didnt matter, just for now.