By the 1950s we had graduated up to a New Holland 77 Hayliner which was the Cadillac of hay balers. Those bales were the old squares that were larger than the kicker squares that followed. That baler would pump out 10 bales per minute, just like the New Holland ads said. Problem would be if you were pushing bales up onto an attached wagon, the guy(s) on the wagon would have trouble standing up unless the field was extremely smooth. By free dropping you could bale 10 bales a minute all day long. I remember one year, I think it was 1954, we sold 32 tons of first cutting alfalfa off from a ten acre field. Then, we had the second cutting to feed. Much higher in protein than the first cutting. We only got 2 cuttings as far north as we are due to lack of good drying weather in early June. That was before crimpers and haybines came along. Not very much hay was put in the silo then, either. We also raised red clover for hay and harvested seed from the second cutting as there was a fair amount of demand for red clover seed. Red clover was a good deal more winter hardy than alfalfa. All total, we would put up about 200 tons of hay. Plus 2000 bushels of oats and 2 14x40 silos of corn silage. Somewhere between 2/12 to 3 tons per acre would be considered an average hay yield on our farm.
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