. Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 . Natural history. GRAVESEND. 389 The hay is carried to the stack in wagons, but where the fields were flat, they availed themselves of a very handy plan, which consisted in this, that they had a rope which was fastened to the harness or iron chains with which the horse drew. This rope was set round about the cock, and was turned down at the back and passed underneath it, and afterwards the rope was fastened by a loop to the chain, when the horse ran the whole cock to the stack, which was then being made in the field. The
. Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 . Natural history. GRAVESEND. 389 The hay is carried to the stack in wagons, but where the fields were flat, they availed themselves of a very handy plan, which consisted in this, that they had a rope which was fastened to the harness or iron chains with which the horse drew. This rope was set round about the cock, and was turned down at the back and passed underneath it, and afterwards the rope was fastened by a loop to the chain, when the horse ran the whole cock to the stack, which was then being made in the field. There seemed to be little or no hay left behind the cock on the field [T. II. p. 33], but the cock came almost entire to the place. Instead of a bridge, they filled the dike with hay, over which they drove. Hdstackarna, the haystacks are made either round as in Fig. 1, or oblong, and in the shape of a house, as Fig. As the hay-stack was made the hay was trodden down at once, so that it might lie steady. At the beginning, and while the stack is still low, they have horses on it to trample the hay; afterwards, higher up, the trampling is done by many men. When they have got the stack ready in one of the aforenamed shapes, the sides L N and M O in Fig. 1, and E F and C D G H in Fig. 2, are cut with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Kalm, Pehr, 1716-1779. London ; New York : Macmillan
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