CHAPTER V.

Hay-harvest--Timothy-grass--Permanent pasture--Hay-making by express--The mower and reaper--Hay-stacks as novelties-- Wheat-harvest--Thrashing--The "thrashing crowd"--"Headers" and "self-binders"--Twine-binders and home-grown flax--Green food for cows--Indian corn, vetches--Wild-oats in wheat--Tar-weed the new enemy--Cost of harvesting--By hired machines--By purchased machines--Cost of wheat-growing in the Willamette Valley. 62