"The hay had to be saved for the cows and the fodder, The turf had to be cut and saved. The creel ’twas made of lathes of timber and put on permanent to the horsecart and you filled that with turf and you brought it away home. So you brought that in the month of September always. The hay had to be saved and you started the first of July cut with the mowing machine and the horses. I didn’t ever see it being cut with the scythe now, not but I cut bits with the scythe myself. It had to be turned. It had to be put into cocks. They eventually are put into trams. Now when it was saved it had to be put into the horsecart again and brought into the hay shed, built up in it and you were at that for about a fortnight. You could be saving this hay for the biggest part of three months, weather permitting. The potatoes were put into what they called a pit. A reek if you like, in the haggard and they were covered with clay about nine inches wide and they were thatched on the top with rushes and the rushes kept the water off of them and the clay kept the frost off. So you brought in your potatoes as you needed ‘em. Maybe fifty or sixty stone and put them into the barn. You had the hay barn in the haggard. You had the potatoes in the haggard. You had the turf in the turf shed. At the time a lot of people didn’t have a turf shed. It would be fjord in a clamp and covered with rushes. They had to be cut, gathered and brought on with the car and put on top of it. They would come out perfect. The turf would be perfect under it."
