HAYING TOOLS. 805 
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 drafis of about 500 lbs 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 une prob- 
lem, how to get hold of it to lift it is another 
quite as important. I like the Jackscn 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- 
