Will Fly-

Yes, there's not too many of us who still have memories of working with horse-drawn hay wagons. Half the fun of riding home on top of a hay load was avoiding being brushed off by tree limbs.

And if the hay were wet when unloaded into the hay mow, there was the danger that it might ignite from spontaneous combustion. I remember one sessions where we were pitching hay down from the loft after it started to smoke, and some of what we found was charred black.

Never ran into the term "stooks" before. We stacked the loose hay into "hay-cocks" and then pitched them into the wagon. After three weeks of haying you built up strong muscles.

We did convert from workhorse to tractor in 1950 but we never got a hay-baler.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble