ARTIFICIAL HAY DRYING.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2650, 4 October 1882, Page 3

ARTIFICIAL HAY DRYING.

Mr Q. P. Fuller, of Neston Park, Corsasm, has addressed the following letter to Mr W. A. Gibbs, dated July 31st:—“ Sir, —Having finished my bay harvest cn Saturday last, the 29th of July, it may be interesting to you tc know the result of the valuable aaristance your hay-dryer has rendered me. I have clean 3 18S acres of meadow glass, from which X have made nine ricks, about 220 ton# of hay. I began mowing on the sth of June, thereby clearing the ground in eight weeks, at an average of twenty throe to twenty-four acres per week. During the eight * weeks of most miserable baymating weather, there have been only nine days (of twenty-fern cause entire hours) of fine weather. Of tbs nine rich*, 2J ricks (about 50 tone) have been made without the assistance of the bay-dryer, the remaining 170 tuna wore stacked in il4 hours, the dryor being used only on an average of six hours per day on 19 days; this will show that in eocßcquencs of the unfavorable wssefcor the machine could only he used one ; bird of the 56 days cf the harvest. As to the cost of making, by charging for the use of each horse 3r per day, I find that haulage of coals, coke, and u:e of horsaa in tho field, including mowing, amounted to £29 14a ; manual labor exao to £54 16* ; smell coal for engine (ceven tons at 10a per tor-), £3 19c ; coke for furnaces (17i tons at I2s per ton), £lO 103 j bec-r money, £ll 10s.— Total, £llO. Total coat about 12s 63 pci acre, or 10* per tea of boy. I must add that I bavo charged labor for whole days when perhaps the hands cave been stopped by rain setting in. The straw for thatching and the cost ss thatching is not included in the labor, but drawing reed for thatching is included. Beyond the advantege of securing good instead of bad hey, X nave been able to cut the grots early, and thereby have a large growth cf after-math. I havs to hesitation iu assuring you that hr the t wo soosoas of 1830 and 1882, I have more then covered the firal cost of your machine by the value cf tho hay made, and am more than ever convinced tfast for these who mow upwards of 150 hero* a year of pasture, s~-d wno also have a rtcam engine for other farm purposes, your fcsj dryer would bo an econo vied investment. Yours truly, Q. ?. Fulibk,”