haying

The haying is over and harvest isn't on, and Alec needs a change.

The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

[Page 60] ago, have been so arranged and protected as to make it a very pleasant summer residence, but, instead, it was now used only for a week or two in haying-time, when the haymakers slept and ate in its basement, – for this quaint little house had a basement, with a kitchen, dining-room, and storeroom.

Our Little Canadian Cousin 1904

This convocation, occurring in the leisure spell between the end of planting and the commencement of haying, is consequently no hindrance to the agricultural part of the community; and old and young "off they come" from Miramichi, from Acadia, and the

Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America Frederick 1845

But Sheralyn Goyncke, 17, spent the day "haying" - or, in layman's terms, managing bails of hay for cows.

Greeley Tribune - Top Stories By Jakob Rodgers 2009

The scanty garments were faded and worn, for harvesting is terribly hard work, and they cannot use their good clothes, as at the haying, which is mere sport in comparison.

Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Eminence in the profession of "haying" was not precisely what Hilda had meant; but she said nothing.

Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

It was the custom at the Old Squire's to begin "haying" on Monday after the Fourth of July.

When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine 1887

The buttercups and the daisies would be blooming when we were working the road, and the timothy grass about ready to do so -- pointing to the near approach of the great event of the season, the one major task toward which so many other things pointed -- "haying;" the gathering of our hundred or more tons of meadow hay.

My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879

The small, secretive bird is planning a family on 100 acres slated for haying.

Lance Mannion: 2009

Sedge wren puts haying on hold in Town of Montgomery

Lance Mannion: 2009