Developed by Terence J and FE O'Hara, the Secrets of Haymaking includes new farming techniques and experimental ideas with a collection of simple and innovative machinery designs.
The book is a mixture of ideas of how to make hay that will improve your haymaking results in quality, to create easier selling with extra income from all classes of hay.
Listed below are the topics covered in the book.
Page
Contents
4History in learning with argumentative family
5 Quality is the aim
6 Problem List
7 Sayings of farmers to activate thinking
8 Routine in cutting
8 Time to cut
9 Beat the Bleach
11 Routine in Rainy Weather
12 Study Internet weather
13 Time of Day to Cut
15 New Mulch Hay Ideas
16 Flat Cutting
18 Hay Raking
19 Fluff Up Raking
20 One & Half Size Windrows
20 Wind Damaged Windrows
21 Stopping Wind Damage
22 Windrow Direction Raking
23 Heavy Dew Color Saving Windrows
23 Wet Windrows
24 Secrets Raking Very Wet Hay
25 Slow Flip Raking
27 Chippy – Chippy - Hay --- Beat over Dry Making
29 Over Dry Windrows
30 Frosty Winter Hay Making
31 Hay Baler Operating
31 Weight of Bale
35 Baling with Keeping Quality
36 Teach & Trade Report
37 Storage of Hay
39 Marketing Hay
42 Healthy Lucerne Plant
43 The Haymaking Burkill's
49 Allen Newton Molasses on Hay as cheaper drought food
50 Contract Haymaking
51 Aquaculture Yabby Hay.
52 Oaten Hay.
55 Propagation Hay
56 Liver seed Grass
57 Prairie Grass Seed
58 Trefoil Clover Seed
59 Johnson Grass
60 Health Problems as a Haymaker
64 Hay Failure Stress
65 Hassett Family
67 Paul Hassett's Quality Improvements
71 Oaten Hay Recipe
72 People to Thank
75 New ways to grow Vegetables with Mulch Lucerne Hay.
79 Cocktail Lucerne Seed Sowings
80Out of Season Seed Sowing --- Germinate with Rain at Correct Temp
85 Different experiments in notes of interest to Farmers.
90 Allen Newton's -- History of the start of Irrigation & Lucerne Growing that coincided with Dairy Industry in the Hunter Valley .
Devices, Innovated Designs & Inventions, Working ideas on Farms, Testing Improvements
26 Hay Turner, Turn windrow upside in mid-day, Turn wet hay the same. 33 Quad pod --- Weighing Hay Scale, A must for a learner 41 Electricity Leakage in Farm Transmission Lines, 36 years 41 Dome Filter, Suction Blockage at the Foot valve, Bacterial Iron Control 44 Biotal Buchneri for Haymakers. Optimizing the weather window of Opportunity 54 Round Bale Hay Sledge , Transport Round Bale around the Farm. 63 Face Cancer Protection Hood, A safe protection after treatment. 73 Simptech's Small Seeder , An attachment to Spreader to sow seed 76 Australasian Tyre 2 Tyre 2 Spare , Air Valve Connected too Spare 78 Seed Bed Leveler , Level Seed Bed soil out to sow, like a tennis court 79 Low PTO Drawbar Pin , Low handle on Drawbar, Removes easy. 80 Pressure Pump, Pipe Accumulator , Storage of high pressure in underground mains. 83 Strainer Stay Foot , for star iron posts, Simple electric fencing. 84 Stationary Gate , Access over any fence with ease, Portable cattle yard with high viewing point for two people, easy access from dangerous animal. Pump Mate, Simple repriming system as water pumps out, to restart with pump running, recycle pipe to care for the mechanical seal. 85 Clock Drafting Stock Yards , Move cattle from one yard to any yard in an easy way, with two center gates in a circle yard with many circumference gates. 91 Para-wind-wheel, Sail Wind Mill , These are Energy Designs to be built at my Farm for sale as Engineering Drawing to be copied as Farm Energy.
Some comments from people who have read the book:
Very interesting! I read all the notes and wanted to keep them on hand for reference. DB
You've said the lot! T.D.
The most I've ever learned in one lesson. T.M.
The best book I've ever read. A.B.
It's nice to read a second opinion in what I've taught myself over a lifetime as a haymaker and be right. S.B.
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