Actually the hay mow is where you put the hay stack. Usually to one or both
sides of the threshing floor which is directly inside the barn doors. The
confusion is in differentiating hay from straw. Hay is something you grow to
feed horses and other lucky farm animals. They eat the whole plant. Straw is
what you have left after you thresh wheat or oats, so typically the straw
"pile" ended up outside in the back of the barn where it was forked in
pre-threshing machine days, and blown when the thresher came along.

Some well to do farmers would build a straw shed off the back of the barn to
keep the straw pile covered and dry. Straw is good bedding and low quallity
feed. So a "roll in the hay" usually meant you were discreet enough to drop
trow in the barn. Besides...straw is scratchy stuff.

Midwest reality checker.

Rudy


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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Bruce
Marcham
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:16 PM
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A haystack in a barn is called a haymow, isn't it?  Great for going for a
roll in the hay (see Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein").  (Actually I think
that was in the wagon...)

Rurally Challenged

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From: Ralph Walter [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 12:23 PM
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Subject: Re: Old news flash for you non-Dead Man's Grovers...


In a message dated 10/31/2001 7:56:47 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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writes:

<< Except in my case when I think back to the initial conjoining of my great
 grandfather and grandmother in Iowa. Seems my less-spoken-of lineage
includes
 the lusty farm boy and horse trader forcing himself on the visiting school
 teacher in the barn at a place then called Dead Man's Grove. ;-) >>

Ken,

Three problems with this, starting with forcible nookie.  Then, did your
greatgrandfather really do it with your grandmother? Eeeewewww. And lastly,
why was there a haystack in the barn?

Ex-yout' wants to  know.