I may be wrong. Cal it looks like knows more about it than I do! Mary Austin-Mom A.

Being an old farm hand myself once upon a time, I did quite alot of mowing and raking with horses. I’m almost positive who ever wrote that, that they were talking about hay mowers and dump rakes. That is about the only kind they had back in that day. In that one picture, it showed the old overshot stacker or a slide stacker, I couldn’t be sure which one as the picture wasn’t that clear. But they all went with mowing, raking and stacking of hay for feed in the long winters. I think we had some old pictures that said the same thing, as these looked very familiar, if I’m not mistaken. Most of the farmers or farm hands were lucky if they were able to reach the 6th grade in those good ole days.