The Indians visit the lakes at the season of the year when the grub is most plentiful, and from the shores of the lakes they gather them where the waves throw them up in windrows several inches deep.
These days giant "U" shaped machines may roll downwindrows at municipal composting plots, automatically turning, reshaping the windrow and if necessary, simultaneously spraying water.
D (no residual trace ever found present), I estimate that the overall C/N of the materials going into the windrows at 25:1.
Industrial or municipal composters build windrows up to ten feet at the base, seven feet high, and as long as they want.
Old Squire would exclaim, as the grain lay wet in the field, day after day, or when an August shower came rumbling over the mountains just as we were raking it up into windrows and tumbles.
The Old Squire was raking after the cart, and the others were raking hay into windrows a little way off.
Bismarck sleeps surrounded by windrows of the dead; it was the moment he had awaited, all these years.
At last, the course of nature can no farther go; and the master falls into a deep sleep--surrounded by windrows of the dead.
How Hanky Panky did turn from one point to another and "soak" it all in, as Josh remarked aside to Rod, impatiently waiting for a second chance to observe what was going on over there beyond the windrows of the dead.
No wonder then the dead and wounded were as the leaves of the forest when the wind of late October tears them from their hold upon the branches and scatters them in windrows behind the logs and stumps and in fence corners.
The land as far as eye could see in every direction was flat, dead white, and smooth as a table, except for the long curving windrows into which the hard snow had been licked up by weeks of screaming wind.
And they travel in such countless numbers that sometimes a storm will throw them ashore in long windrows like you see in a hay field, so that the farmers come and cart them away for manure.
Hay usually is forked by hand from the windrows on to the skids.
If the vines are lifted and cut clean they can be raked into windrows with a spring tooth hayrake.
Where the bulbs are extremely dry at the time of their removal from the soil, they may be allowed to lie in the windrows for a few days only, and then sorted and cleaned in the field ready for packing and marketing.
Where the bulbs are practically upon the surface they may be pulled by hand and thrown in windrows consisting of eight or ten onion rows.
If crates are not employed for curing, the bulbs are allowed to lie in the windrows for some time, and are then either put into sacks or hauled to slat cribs, where they complete the curing process.
After lying in the windrows for several days and being stirred occasionally with wooden rakes they are gone over and the tops removed either by twisting or cutting with ordinary sheep shears.
The size of the windrows depends upon the amount of hay, as thick hay should be put up in small windrows to give plenty of circulation of air.
They should be grown in such light soil that they will not be stained, and the common method of curing is to dig or plow up, throw the vines, with nuts attached, into windrows and allow them to lie a week or ten days for drying.
It is usual to cut in the morning and rake into windrows in the afternoon.
The vines should generally stay in the windrows for two or three days and be turned on the last day.
As piling the vines around stakes is somewhat laborious, some growers watch the curing carefully and succeed in getting the vines dry enough to haul directly from the windrows to the barns.
The windrows should be small, the rake merely serving to invert half the vines upon the other half, bringing new surface to the sun.
After another day of curing, the windrows should be broken up into bunches no larger than can be pitched upon the wagon by a workman, thus saving the trouble of disentangling the vines.
The vines can be left in the swath until the top leaves begin to burn and then be put into windrows with a sulky hay-rake.
My fence was eight to ten feet in thickness and shoulder high; and similar windrows of rock ran over the moraine in all directions, like a range upon a range.
Occasionally windrows occur through the dense coniferous forests of the inland passage, where the trees have been swept or leveled in a remarkable manner.
These windrows of fallen trees sometimes stretched along horizontally in varying widths, an effect undoubtedly produced by heavy gales rushing through the contracted "passage.
The windrows through the timber of former avalanches of snow or landslides, now become thicker and their effects occasionally picturesque in the very devastation created.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "windrows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
