Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1871 — Core for Bad Hay. [ARTICLE]

Core for Bad Hay.

A correspondent of the Irish Farmers' Gazette writes on this subject as follows .- As many of your readers may have their hay destroyed by the late rains, allow me to suggest to them the advantage of sprinkling their ricks withamixture of one pound of fenugreek powder, well mixed with a stone and a half of salt per ton of hay. A few years ago I had about two tons of the worst possible hay, fit, apparently, for tie manure heap, and nothing else, however, I made a cock of it in the corner of the field, and used the mixture I mention, put a fence around it, and told my herder to keep it till snow was on the ground, and then to let the beasts eat it if they would; but long before tho snow came the bullocks had forced the fence andw&ere devouring the Bay, leaving good hay, with which they were being foddered,' on the ground untouched. Last year I ordered a sheep cock to be made in one of my fields, and as I was going away, left some of the mixture with my steward, and told him to sprinkle the hay as I had done before. After the sheep had been let in I was surprised to see them all standing around the cock on their hind legs eating. I made inquiries from my steward, arid found that he considered the hay so good he did not use the, mixture till the cock was partly made, but. the sheep found it out.

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