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Description: Until the 1930's in the northern United States, most hay was cut as illustrated in image #4451, raked into windrows (image #4452), and loaded on to a wagon with a hay loader (image #4453) before it was off-loaded into a hay barn as shown here. The horses were pulling a rope that moved through several pullies to a hay fork shown at the center above the wagon. As the horses moved, they pulled the hay up to the level of the hay loft and then horizontally until it arrived at the desired location where it was dropped. The hay loft was usually located above the level that housed dairy cows. When it was needed, the hay was forked into a vertical chute where if fell to the level of the cattle.

Resolution: 1472x1916

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