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40 THE RURAL VOICE
that the "news" about ensiling
became more widely spread in
Europe and North America. In 1877,
the French farmer Auguste Goffart
published a report explaining the
ensiling of various crops, including
the chopping and ensiling of whole -
plant corn. This spurred experimental
use by a Michigan farmer, M. Miles
How do you
stack a
haystack?
believe most farm kids would
consider learning how to
properly stack bales of hay into
stooks, wagons or in the mow to be
a sort of "rite -of -passage". I
suppose the same could be said for
safely stacking large round bales
with a loader. And my guess is the
same was true when it came to
constructing the traditional round
domed -top haystack – the icon of
rural history.
While I can only imagine these
stacks standing starkly in the field
in the spot where my father said
they used to be built each year, I
can relay a bit of knowledge about
how these stacks were stacked —
to stay stacked. Basically, the
farmer would use his pitchfork to
fashion a circle of hay around him.
Staying in the middle of this circle,
the farmer would ensure that as
each layer of hay was added, the
layer was thinnest where he stood
and grew thickest at the outer
edges of his circle. As the haystack
grew taller, the farmer on top of the
haystack would find himself still
standing at the center of what was
basically a shallow funnel of hay
that he formed around himself. A
second farmer would pitch hay to
him from a wagon or from the
ground below. Once the stack
reached the desired height
(probably limited only by how high
up the second farmer could throw),
the stack was topped off by filling
the funnel. Apparently, because of
the manner of its construction, the
haystack was constantly trying to
fall inward from all sides making it
a stable haystack – one that stayed
stacked.0