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in the super large bales, but not clover. He’s also found it helps to “cap” the bales with a piece of plastic, much as the old-fashioned hay ricks were finished off by thatchers—to keep moisture damage to a minimum.

These techniques, plus a feeder gate, arrangement, had resulted in minimum losses, Dupont reported. Experience with large bales of corn stalks, on the other hand, was not good. “We had a tremendous amount of loss with this.

Another thing to watch out for in the large bales is cave-ins on small calves, he reported. Cattle have a tendency to “eat straight into” the stack, creating an exaggerated mushroom effect, and cave-ins.

Ed Gentry of Madison said his operation is similar to Manwaring’s. He was as enthusastic as the first two speakers about

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