On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Siddiq Siddiqui-Ali <
muhammad.siddiqui-ali@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:04 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Bale 1:
> >> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=9832
>
> Interesting--haven't seen them rolled up like that around here
> (California), only in cubes. Saw them by the barn-full in the summers in
> Italy, and plenty of them when GeeBee used to post them. Thought it's just
> an European thing; clearly not!
>
>
It's a pretty common practice here in the Midwest. The theory is that when
they're tightly rolled like that, not only do they contain a whole lot of
hay, but the tight packing and curved surfaces make them roughly
waterproof. They're left in the fields and the rain just runs off the
curved surfaces and doesn't soak into the bale. Eliminates the need to
stack 'em up in a hayloft, one of the most miserable of all farm chores.
Well, there are several really miserable farm chores: Baling hay, stacking
hay, and detassling corn.
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Paul Braun
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