Hay there. Since time immemorial, cows have eaten grass and its dried form, hay. Cows’ inner-workings process forages through a four stomach manufacturing process, which converts the grassy intake into two basic outputs. One product is milk for their offspring and a diet staple for much of the world’s population. A second output is a valuable soil nutrient builder which could, in our politically-correct extreme times, appropriately be labeled “used forage.” Once upon a time, all dairy cows grazed, gathering their own forages and automatically return- ing soil nutrients to be broken down by weathering and time. Grazing demands some signifi cant volume of land devoted to grass. Modem land crunches and '’’ BEDROOM ■ ! ORGANIZER 8t • MT ENTERTAINMENT I tar CENTER I- ; 529995 CLOSEOUT! « ■ 1-Cash Price SOQ9S ;| ' Special 1 "'; Rag. Ret. $2100.00 | Caah Price $849.95 ; cCDteout $ 499 03 J ' ENDTABLE ’SET' % . 3 Pack i fp'i r’fl Reg. 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Our children (and I!) rejoiced with the arrival of our first large, round-baler years ago, saving endless hours of pitching bales around oven-like bam storage areas on humid, 90-degree July afternoons. While we still harvest a few hundred small bales for calf and fresh cow feeding, the bulk of our hay moves in large rolls, impaled one by one on a sturdy, steel prong fastened to a loading de vice on the front end of a tractor. Giant, rectangular-shaped bales are more highly favored by grow ers, especially in the West, whose end goal is to ship and sell the packed forage. Rectangles stack better than rolls for distance hauling. In an agriculture poll taken a few years ago, the large baler was voted the most important equip ment technological improvement UNDER WHOLESALER of the century. That’s certainly arguable, but hard to deny after unloading wagonfuls of small bales on a steamy, summer after noon. While handling techniques have modernized, some things about hay are constant. Hay storage areas invite kids to jump, swing, tunnel, and climb high up to the spider-webbed, nether-reaches of a big bam stuffed with scratchy dry grass. Mother cats still find nooks and crannies among hay storage to curl up and give birth to their kit tens. And, every spring, at least in our bam, one of our nasty, old hens will hunker down in a hay mow corner to hatch out a nest of eggs. So, in a world of constant change and uncertain times, making hay, in some form, re mains an important part of rural agriculture and tradition. Excuse me, now, while I go sweep all this dried, green “tradi tion” off the kitchen floor. 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