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gradually narrowing your operations inwards until 

 all the grass has been cut, the rake (a 10-foot one 

 for choice), drawn by a second team, is brought 

 into requisition, and the newly-cut grass is taken 

 up and dumped in bulky winrows, about twelve 

 paces apart, right across the mown area, after which 

 (presuming the hay is quite dry, for remember it has 

 cured while standing) the rake is taken down the 

 whole length of each winrow by the driver, who is 

 mounted upon it, and, by judicious use of the foot 

 or hand lever, according to the make of the rake, 

 sufficient is gathered up in the teeth of the machine 

 to form a good-sized hay-cock which, by the sudden 

 release of the teeth, is left behind. When all 

 the winrows have been thus treated, neat little 

 piles of hay, all equidistant from one another, will 

 cover the field, and be ready for carrying to the 

 stack. 



A light, but at the same time strong, waggon-rack 

 is a necessary item in every rancher's outfit, for the 

 purpose of conveying hay from the field to the stack. 

 It is quite easily and cheaply made with a few lengths 

 of 2 by 4 inch scantling, 1 by 12 inch boards, some 

 pretty stout willow-sticks, iron bolts, and wire.. It 

 is hardly worth while to go into its plan of construc- 

 tion here, it being somewhat difficult to describe 

 without diagrams, but close examination of a good 



