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be added to the cattles’ diet if this method is to succeed, he warned.

And in discussing new forage handling methods, Mast emphasized that the small average size of Virginia’s herds means that hay handling equipment must carry a price tag small enough to be handled by the small farmer.

THEN MOST of those present adjourned to a five - acre hay field which had been cut and raked to show off several types of new hay handling equipment that has been developed—from small round bales which are left in the field, to a huge, lumbering machine ( called a “Haybuster”) which prepares a giant haystack.

There were even machines for picking up completed haystacks and carrying them from one field to another.

As is always the case in such demonstrations, some of the machines didn’t work as advertised, some didn’t work at all, and some didn’t work as well as their manufacturers said they would.

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