NEB&W Guide to Rural Details - Haystacks & BalesThis file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2009-06-25
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Today hay is rolled in enormous rolls. A machine cuts the hay, rolls it, and wraps it in wire, all in one operation. I remember hay being baled in rectangles, also wrapped in wire.
In the September '95 Good Old Days, George King described how hay was cut in the 1920's. At that time, it was a cooperative effort, with all the local farmers working on one farmer's fields on one day, then another farmer's,