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in order to avoid having to carry it any great dis- 

 tance when feeding. This is a consideration fully 

 worth taking into account, you will find, on a cold 

 winter's day. Any overplus should be stacked and 

 fenced (to keep off beasts) in the most suitable place 

 available in the field, so that it can be drawn upon 

 as required. 



Where three or four hands are available a some- 

 what different procedure is advisable. When all the 

 hay that is wanted has been mown and raked into 

 winrows, as described, an ungainly appliance, called 

 a " sweep," is used, which greatly facilitates stack- 

 ing operations. A stout pine-log, 15 feet or so in 

 length, is procured, and 2-inch auger holes are 

 bored along the top and side at intervals of about 

 1 foot apart throughout its length. Tough willow 

 stakes, 4 feet long, are then driven firmly into them, 

 making an L-shaped barricade (looked at down the 

 length of the log), that can be dragged over the 

 ground by two teams of horses, hitched one at each 

 end of the log by chains and waggon double-trees. 

 Two drivers are necessary to this clumsy but useful 

 contrivance, who stand on the "sweep" (one at 

 each end of the log, of course) and drive it broad- 

 side on down a winrow, the hay bunching up and 

 spreading out in front of it as it goes, until a full 

 load is caught up and dragged to the site chosen 



