Old Johnny Brown stayed on for a day or so to clean up odd jobs neglected during the haying season.
All our days are not so busy as this one; and when the haying and summer sewing are done, we have a chance for good times.
Our haying was done this summer in eight days or perhaps less.
For the girls alone they have swimming parties and visiting parties; and they help one another during haying and threshing.
The following, written by a girl of sixteen, a description of a day in haying time, shows how a blithesome spirit can make work light and joyous: "Haying time is a very busy season for all on the farm.
The haying for the day is done and it is pleasant to lie in the hammock and read a paper or book while the men finish unloading their last load.
He adds:-- "When I could leave my work on my new land I worked out haying and other work.
In Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the church-shell was afterwards used for many years as a signal to begin and stop work in the haying field.
Another of the workmen said he thought at first that he could do very well without spirits three quarters of the year; but that, in haying and harvesting, he should want a little.
His neighbors told him that he could not hire men on those conditions; that men could not be found who would do without rum, especially in haying and harvesting.
He is the boy who made the nest for Flying Squirrel's family in the barn at haying time.
He said nothing, for he did not wish to grieve his mother, and as it was now the last week in June he hired himself out to a farmer for the summer months, to help in haying and harvesting.
When the haying was done, and the settling day came, the farmer asked the boys what wages they expected.
We lived together twenty years without any children, yet her barrenness did hot hinder my haying a great deal of complaisance and friendship for her.
On it was a picture of a meadow, with a green brook running through it; and people were haying in the meadow.
Some years, rainy Oregon weather is still unsettled athaying season and farmers are stuck with spoiled hay.
The folk of Beaver Dam, and of thousands of other rural communities, were busy with their haying when Canada offered a division to the mother country, for service in any part of the world.
He had worked at the haying and the harvesting on Beaver Dam and his own place without so much as a twinge of pain.
He was in high spirits and proud of his commission, but he put on an old tweed suit the next morning and helped with the last of the haying on the home farm and on Peter's place.
On my father's farm, rum toddy was drunk three times a day during the haying season, which lasted from the 4th of July to the 1st of August, or a little later.
These rates existed when mechanics could command only one dollar a day, and when ordinary laborers could earn only fifty cents or seventy-five cents--except in thehaying season, when good mowers could command one dollar.
Haven't you seen the jolly haying parties in Southern Germany, France, Switzerland and the Tyrol?
At haying and harvest time it should be fitted with the common tools required about haying and harvest machinery.
Ordinarily a horse rake is supposed to travel steadily along like a cart, but the ground is rough and in practical use the nuts loosen almost as soon as haying commences.
I should add that rain seldom falls in the lower Sacramento Valley during the haying season in the months of May and June.
Alfalfa is cut from five to seven times in the hot interior valleys, so that if a farmer is rash enough to plant alfalfa under irrigation his haying thereafter will reach from one rainy season to the next.
Haying here no cover, the man ran his best, and finally, having crossed the open, he dropped down in a dense thicket to rest, breathing hard from that last spurt.
All through the time of the haying the meadow-folk lived in a turmoil of alarm and change.
The effect in the haying season is quite striking and novel to the stranger.
What would our New England farmers think to see a woman swing a scythe all day in the haying season, cutting as broad and true a swath as a man can do, and apparently with as little fatigue!
It was the haying and harvesting season when the author passed over the principal routes, and the fields showed four times as many women as men engaged in mowing, reaping, loading heavy carts, and getting in the harvest generally.
The haying was over, the oats mainly in shock, and the people on the highway suspicious and inhospitable.
Haying was a delightful season to us, for the scythes of the men occasionally tossed up clusters of beautiful strawberries, which we joyfully gathered.
Most of the duties of the farmer's life require the lapse of years to seem beautiful in my eyes, but haying was a season of well-defined charm.
During the summer of my eighth year, I took a part in haying and harvest, and I have a painful recollection of raking hay after the wagons, for I wore no shoes and the stubble was very sharp.
I am not so sure that haying brought to our mothers anything like this rapture, for the men added to our crew made the duties of the kitchens just that much heavier.
Haying was over, and day by day we boys watched with deepening interest while the hot sun transformed the juices of the soil into those stately stalks.
When haying is over, which event will take place on Saturday night of this week, fair weather being vouchsafed, I shall return to my moderation.
During the hayingwe have devoted all our time and faculty to the making of hay, leaving the body at night fit only to be devoted to sheets and pillows, and not to grave or even friendly epistolary intercourse.
But haying in and of itself is a clean and pleasant kind of farm work, if only the farmers would not rush it so relentlessly.
In haying time we boys were called at half-past four o'clock every morning, with the hired men.
Haying was now over; and the wheat and barley were in; but an acre more of late-sown oats still remained to be harvested, also an acre of buckwheat.
A day's work in haying should and can be so planned as to give two hours' nooning in the hottest part of the day.
We often found the nests, while haying in the fields; the scythe generally passed over them without doing any harm, and to save them from the rake, we would put up a stick close beside them.
As soon as haying begins, a demon of haste to finish in a given number of days seems, or once seemed, to take possession of the American farmer.
Legislative sessions, be it known, no longer took place in the summer, a great relief to Mr. Crewe and to farmers in general, who wished to be at home in haying time.
Every variety of haying machine, from side-delivery rake and tedder to sweep rake and loader, came eventually to make hay-making easy.
Can it be that the old devil is tipsy--at the height of the haying season--and dry weather at that?
We made clever comments to the effect that the farmers were now getting plenty of moisture for the hay-fields, and that it would be a pity if rain should set in now, right at the beginning of the haying season.
I intend to keep it right here on the knoll, keep it in case the haying should be poor next summer.
HOME AGAIN July had come, and haying begun; the little gardens were doing finely and the long summer days were full of pleasant hours.
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