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RE: [OM] Re: Forced Poverty

Subject: RE: [OM] Re: Forced Poverty
From: Paul Laughlin <pelaughlin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:09:22 -0700
At 11:04 AM 4/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Hay making was a beautiful thing and then came bales and
baling machines (ugly and somewhat labor-intensive).
Modern methods of making big rolls of hay which lay about
fields for a while have made haying beautiful again.  When
I see haying, my shutter finger gets itchy (my nose too).

Hay making might have been a beautiful thing, but it was darned hard work and took a large crew of men. The bales and baling machines allow one man to put up the hay. I don't call that particularly labor intensive. Just requires expensive equipment as do the big rolls of hay. I intend to try to get up to Dufur, Oregon in August for the threshing bee. The do all that is possible the old fashioned way, with horses. Should be quite a photo session. Hot and dusty though. I, also remember getting the chaff down my neck.
Paul in Portland OR



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