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working implement like a swathe turner makes it 

 possible. 



As to the matter of carting and stacking, there is this 

 point to remember : One object of making the big 

 pikes of hay is to enable a man to use a hay bogie, as it 

 is called. This implement is a low cart mounted on 

 two wheels and fitted at the front with a winding 

 barrel and racket. 



Attached to the barrel are two ropes, which are 

 passed round the pikes, and are coupled at the back 

 of the pikes. This done, the platform of the bogie tips 

 up, and, by working the racket, the entire pike is 

 hauled on to the bogie. Wlien the pike reaches a point 

 a little past the axle the platform drops back into its 

 place and is carted to the hay shed or stack. 



This, of course, means very quick work, since it 

 saves the trouble of pulling the pike to pieces and 

 lifting it by hand on to a cart or wagon. 



These hay bogies are common enough in Scotland 

 and Ireland, but practically unknown in England, 

 except in the remote north. 



Apart from their utility in carting in the corn or 

 hay, they are very useful things on a continuous- 

 cropping farm. Creel sides can be fitted and the 

 bogies used for carting fodder crops to cattle when 

 these are fed in a house or out on pasture. They 

 are, however, unfit for taking live pigs and sheep to 

 market. 



They can be used for practically all kinds of carting 

 work about the farm, but in winter time it is necessary 

 to get an extra pair of wheels, 3 feet in diameter, as the 

 small ones used in summer skid and make the draught 

 heavy on wet land. 



The bogies as a whole are light, the wheels are about 

 6 inches wide, and hence, fodder-crop carting in wet 

 >yeather caji be undertaken without cutting up the 



