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1. Stacking hay, Chester Mayer Ranch

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Stacking hay on the Chester Mayer Ranch (Eagle, Colorado), not the Eagle Ranch subdivision on Brush Creek. The hay was lifted to the top of the stack by a "Mormon Derrick," a weight and pulley arrangement using a crane. The derrick is in the center of the photo with horse teams and rakes "pushing" hay to the loading area. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]

2. Haystack on Sherman Ranch

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Three children and a ladder next to a very large haystack on the Sherman Ranch, July 1914.

3. Men in hay field

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"Ranchers look over the first cutting of hay on July 24, 1914, at the Sherman ranch east of Eagle. Alfalfa and Timoth hay were among the crops that thrived in the mountain valley climate." -- Early Eagle, by Kathy Heicher p.51

4. Haying on Sherman Ranch

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July 25, 1914, first cutting of hay on the Sherman Brothers Ranch. Yield: 92 ton 800 # from 17 acres. Men are moving hay with pitchforks from wagons. Hay stack in background.
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