stook

Seasonal stooking of tabosa managed under continuous and rotation grazing.

It is Premier Greenway in one of his own fields, with coat off and sleeves rolled up, engaged in stooking grain.

A further five drawings, all landscape in format, show cows grazing and in their stalls and farmers tedding and stooking hay.

Swathers replaced binders and the stooking operation was no more.

I must have done it wrong until Bob came out with that phrase and one presumes that the stooking of corn was from east to west, so as to get the westerly winds to blow through the stooks, but the article reads stokers.

One of those unfortunates was Fred Gillespie, but he managed a moment or two of stooking anyway.

A team of volunteers helped with stooking (stacking and tying) the oats in the traditional-style sheaves, or 'stooks'.

The opening description of the human and physical geography, furthermore, is accompanied by a photograph portraying two Caucasian men with a team of horses stooking grain while harvesting near Edmonton.

His chapter on the evolution of technique, involving the need for planting, stooking, stacking green feed, upgrading herds, grain feeding, fencing, etc., is valuable.

Families worked on farms, hoeing beets or stooking grain.

Women didn't work in the fields on page 58, but on page 63 daughters drove yokes of oxen, on page 90 "girls were also involved in farmwork -- hoeing and cultivating the fields and helping at harvest by sharing with the labourers the tasks of binding and stooking (or tying and stacking the sheaves to dry in the sun)," and on page 227 "On smaller and poorer farms women and girls worked in the fields." On page 188 the impression is given that windmills were new at the turn of the century, yet page 201 tells of windmills being sold at New Germany in 1886, photographs on pages 72 and 177 show wooden windmills on township farms before the turn of the century, and page 82 lists a local windmill maker at Berlin in 1837.

In the 1960s I was apprenticed to my Uncle Glyn to learn the art of bale stooking.