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Putting up hay was done very differently when I was a child. There were no balers to produce those huge round bales that we often see scattered over the hayfields and in road ditches. As a farm kid growing up in the 1950’s haying required that the alfalfa first, be mowed. The newly cut alfalfa would next be gathered up by a dump rake. The farmer on a tractor pulled the dump rake. The dump rake had rounded, metal teeth…..

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