I put the rake away and hooked up the baler. After eating a late lunch I started baling. Three hours later I was done baling the hay in the hayfield. Everything went smooth. I finished before dark.
I had estimated that I will need seven more large bales to feed the cattle this Winter. I got 34 bales from the first cutting. This second cutting... I got six and a half bales. Less than a fifth of the first cutting. The alfalfa grew nicely for the second cutting, the grass didn't. That was the difference.
Tomorrow I will bale the neighbor's quack grass and that will put me over the amount of hay I estimate I will need this Winter.
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| The raked windrows |
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| Drier part of the hayfield where the raked windrows are farther apart. |
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| A raked windrow |
The hay is dry. This time I baled it before it got bleached brown by the sun.
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