harvest season
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Harvest season today means machinery. The earliest pioneers would not have had it.
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HAYING WITH HORSES AND MULES
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From Rural Heritage Magazine, putting up LOOSE hay. At about 1:50 they take the hay from the wagon and put it in the hay mow using block & tackle and a hay hook. It includes scenes from outside and inside the barn. What a unique look at the operation. It's surprising how much hay gets picked up at a time!
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table rock historical
society photos
haying season
Photo 227. hay harvest at Stepans
Photo 568, no names
Making hay -- James Kopp with Anna, Josef, and Karolina Kalina. Photo 1520. For a time reference, James Kopp was born in 1866 and died in 1929.
Photo 852, hay stacks by John Sochor (1867-1951). One goal in construction was for them to shed water. It was said that a good stack would have a point that could split a raindrop.
Photo shared by John Duder, Photo 2005
Hay making with Henry Hays. Photo 1515
Ben Heer with a load of hay, passing on what is now Highway 65 on the south side of town. Photo 1515.
1907, Nemecek boy fell from hay mow, fixed up by Dr. McCrea
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1923. Whatever was valuable could be stolen....
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Sam Shoemaker's, September 5, 1910. Photo 6324.
Photo 6347
Photo 4663, unidentified, undated, shared by Mildred Herink Buethe
In 1935, building a haystack
In two photos shared by Gary & Terry Frank, you can see a giant hay stack being built before they were born. The practiced continued when they were young so they didn't just see a picture, they saw and experienced the haymaking, too. Terry explained that it started with a wooden framework which served as a kind of winter-time stable. The hay was then stacked on it higher and higher. In the winter, the stock would go inside the haystack for shelter, and eat away from the inside and the outside. Both brothers agreed, "It was plumb full of rats, and birds nests."
Photo 4313, shared by Gary & Terry Frank
A detail of Photo 4313:
Another detail of Photo 4313:
Photo 4312, shared by Gary & Terry Frank
A detail of photo 4312:
2019
Debbie Blecha shared these pictures of her husband Howard cutting hay on the prairie by the old Pleasant Valley Country School, also known as the Lionberger School, also known as the Rock School. September 2019.
Photo 8508c, shared by Debbie Blecha
Photo 8508b
Photo 8508a