Interviewer: Um, what would you call the second crop of hay from the field that you get in one season? Speaker: Well, it'd be the second cut. ... That has to be clover or alfalfa, you wouldn't get timothy-hay (inc) give you the second crop. Have to be a clover (inc).

But ah we do-- we don't have too much alfalfa. I get an alfalfa now, you grow in low ground. ... But up 'til now, it had to be on high land. And you got a second cut off it. ... We ah- always put that in for the young cows in the wintertime. It's just like green grass you-know, it's lovely. Awful good feed.

Interviewer: Did your father ever get more than one crop of hay from a field? Speaker: Yes, he would get second cut but sometimes he needed it for the cattle to graze on if the- if the fall was late. Sometimes he- he cut it again and brought it in.

Speaker: And the requirements for a dairy contract were rigid. Like, real rigid. In the fall when you put your cows out on what they call second cut in those days, if you weren't careful that would create a gas and it would blow the tops right off the milk, ah, bottles, you-know? Like, they were glass bottles. ... Interviewer: And did they also look then at the feed when you were talking about the- Speaker: No, they never bothered with that. Interviewer: 'Cause you were saying with the second cut of the- Speaker: That was a seasonal thing. ... It would only- it would only take place probably August and September. ... Because that's when your second cut come along, you-know? ... But it was, ah- yeah, you had to be careful anyway because your cows would bloat on that. And if you weren't taught what- they just died. Like, they just blew up and (inc) their heart out.