'tis Sixty Years Since : the Passing of the Stall-Fed Ox And the Farm Boy
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When the hay was put into the mow it was trodden down as solid as man and boy power could do it, as many a wearied pair of boys' legs could testify. "Mow- ing away" was no sinecure work, and upon its being faithfully done depended largely the condition of the hay in the Two O'clock. winter. The prime object was to keep the mow level while the bay was being- filled . that it should settle evenly and firmly, the outside keeping pace with the center — easy enough in theory, it was difficult enough... in practice. Success- fully done the mow became an amalga- mated mass, almost as solid as a bank of earth, the hay cixring alike in every part: wlieu fed out in the winter, the barn was filled with its grateful fragrance. The mow was cut down witli a sharp hay knife in small square kenclies that the exposure to the air be as little as possible, and no more was "thrown down" than was required for immediate consumption. The fresher the hay tlie better it was relished by the bovine palate. tlie better relished ,the more eaten, the more eaten, the more resultant fat — the aim and end of the wliole process.
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