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Sydney Morning Herald

Saturday March 17, 2007

Hay bailers

The backbreaking job of throwing hay by hand on to a cart has long been lost to mechanisation. Hay is now cut and left in the paddock in either cylindrical bales or turned into short stacks. This photo from December 1953 shows hay harvesting in Goulburn.

© 2007 Sydney Morning Herald

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