Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1868-07-31
Having.


Alas for the poetry OF fariaingi All
the songs of mills maids must po- now
listened for In the old English poets.
Thsswhettiug Of the mowers soy the le
almost over-quite oYer--on M 1arln!
Instead of that, one hears the sharp sat
tie of the mower, and sees the driving
man quite at his ease riding roSsnd ana
round the meadow, for Rll the EvoIAeA as
if he were out airiugE- Whereas, hereto
fore two acres would b counted large
days work; now, ten and twelve are
easily accomplished. #a.
Morris the contrast less remarkable
in all the after work. When j was q
boy, i was placed in line, with all the
men that could be mustered, to shake
out the hay with forks; ana after q few
hours, all hands were called to go over
the ground and turn it. To do this
rapidly, and yet so that the bottom side
shall really come to- the .topy was no
small knacks Now, q tedder, with enc
man riding, viii literally do the WoRk
of ten men, and do it far better than
Theeu1ost expert cans Have you ever
seen a tedder2 have now a perfect
one. The grass rolls mp behind 1t and
foanas, I was going to say, like water.
behind the wheels of steamer. The.
grass leaps up and VFhirIS as if it were
anlazingly, tickled with such dealings
The result is that unless grass isivery
heavy, and the weather very bad, you
may cut your hay In the morning and
get it into your barn before night, in
far better condition than it used to be
WAsn u rec tl1f6o never less tnan tPo5
and generally apartE Of three days to
cure it. sat3 tas4a Wa
But, Ihave forgotten the Horse Rake
Instead of the Old cushioned, Ion1-han-
died rake, and the five or six men pull
ling and hauling to get the grass into
WinroWst that same fellow. with that
9 ny TT1rif TruHT
and IN q fifth part of the time formerly
required to put it into equally good
shape. Indeed haying, if it has lost its
poetry, has also lost its drudgery. A
man can now manage q hundred acres
Of grass easier than he formerly could.
twenty The only thing that remains.
to be made easy is pitching on and off
the load. 1t is true that horseforks have
been invented, but I have never seen
any that did their work well; and in NV
barn, at any rate, the old work Of pitch-
ing and moving remains; and i Z vou
wish to know what fun is, get on TO the
mOWs under the slate roof of nv barn.
on a hot day, and let Timpitch o if hay.
as he viii If give him the wink. You
will have, to step lively, and even then.
you viii often be seen emerging from
heaps Of hay thrown over You like q
rat from q bunch of oakum. And then
it is so pleasant, when a man is ali q
sweat, to have his shirt filed with hav
seed, each particular particle of which
makes belieye that it is a flea, and wig
giles and tfckIes upon every square inch
OfBour skin, until you are half desper-
atei - asa sauF
1t is the second Of July, and my grass
is all cut, and the last load is rolling in
to the barn as ] write. How sweet it
smells. How jolly the children are that
have been mounted puthe top of the
load; and their little scarlet Jackets
peep out from their nest while Tim
stands guard and nurse. Aschild that
has. not yet ridden up from the mead
oW to the barn on a load of hay, has yet
to learn one or the Iuarnries nf ez11ltant
chlldhoodis What care they for jolts
When the whole load is a vast and mn1s
tiplex spring7 The more the wagon
Jou1ces the better they like IN Then
come the bars, leading into the lane
with maple trees on each side. The
limbs reach over, and the green leaves
KISS me children over aud over again.
20 Youtd 4 1tIWere green leaf, and
not CONSIDER myself so green after an.
and so the load rolls slowly up the hill,
There IS no such tiling as momentum Ia
an Ok. he Is always at dead pull and
at the very hardest. But the children