HOW TO PRESERVE HAY.
Is it a good practice to use salts when stacking damp hay? Will the sprinkling or sulphur throughout a hay stack keep down the ravages of mice? Would the mixing of sulphur in the hay increase the danger of fire? The Deputy Director of Agriculture, •South Australia (Mr W. J. Spafford) answering these questions says:— "Salt added to damp hay tends to keep down fermentation, and so reduces the risk of over-heating, and also increases the palatability of such hay. "Sulphur repels mice, and if a little is sprinkled on every layer of hay as it is put into the stack, less damage is done by this pest than is usual. The same result follows the spreading of sulphur on wheat bags when stacking the grain in barns. "There is no reason why the presence of sulphur should increase the chance of fire, because the temperature of the mass would have to be raised by some other means to ignite the sulphur.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2802, 18 November 1931, Page 6
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