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out moulding. It should be put in small shocks when 

 well wilted, or stacked around small vertical poles, the 

 hay resting on cross pieces nailed to the poles or be piled 

 on skeleton pyramidal frames, where the air can penetrate 

 and dry it. Peanuts are plowed out by means of a plow 

 with the mold board removed or a potato digger, which 



Fig. 193. Alfalfa curing in shocks and in windrows. (Ohio) 



lifts them out of the ground. The plants are piled around 

 vertical poles with the nuts on the inside. (Fig. 192). 

 These may stand some weeks and then be stored loose, or 

 threshed, and the vines baled. Lespedeza hay, alfalfa 

 hay, and all those hays which are fine, or of medium 

 fineness can be handled with modern hay-making ma- 

 chinery. The coarse hays can seldom be handled in this 

 way and therefore the labor and expense of harvesting 

 is greater than for the fine hays. 



