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the ground to the top of the stack or mow 

 is ever an engineering problem that one must 

 study. There are several ways of attacking it. 

 One can arrange to take up very large bunches at a 

 time and thus economize time. Under this system 

 one must use two horses to elevate the hay, his ropes 

 and lines wear out rapidly and the men on the stack 

 are embarrassed by too much hay all at once. Or he 

 may waste time by an inefficient fork and carrier 

 that is forever getting out of repair and never takes 

 up very much at a time. A happy medium between 

 these is desired. 



After some thirty years of haymaking I think that 

 to lift drafts of about 500 Ibs weight at a haul is 

 about right, and I would rather go under that weight 

 than over it. This gets the hay up rapidly enough 

 and yet the men in the mow can handle it easily. 



There are many forms of efficient derricks for lift- 

 ing hay to the rick. We present illustrations of sev- 

 eral types and there are others nearly or quite as 

 efficient. 



Grapple Forks. How to lift the hay is one prob- 

 lem, how to get hold of it to lift it is another 

 quite as important. I like the Jackson California 

 fork for use in the field when stacking This will 

 grasp an incredible weight of hay, as much as the 

 men care to handle on the stack. It disturbs the 

 hay very little and leaves it on the stack in good 

 condition. Double harpoon forks do not work so well 

 in the field as they do in the barn. There are effi- 



