bale

noun, a bundle of material tightly wrapped or bound: a bale of hay (COD)

“That was a hot job in the summertime, stacking those bales in the mow. It was all steel roof, and the sun would beat down on it, get hot as the blazes.”

“My grandfather actually started the farm on the Island, and in the wintertime farmers would augment their income by baling up these big bales of hay called pressing and they’d bale up the loose hay that they put in the barn.”

“My Dad had what they called the old fashioned hay-press for baling big square bales of hay.”

“There’d be quite a few bales went in that mow, eh.”
“Yeah, I think 12,000 we put in the home barn there. And we had a lot of other barns around at that time too, eh.”

“I just remember Dad had a hay-press. The horses would walk around in a circle, and they would drive it on a big arm and then press it in the bale.”

“And the horse hay, well nowadays we get in a hurry. We wrap it in big round bales and cows get it. If it happened to be a little bit dusty, that’s detrimental to a horse. They can’t have dusty hay, so you usually want small square bales that you put in a barn under cover and make sure that the horse hay is clean…”

“I remember that you didn’t like to touch a bale of hay with a snake in it.”
“What I had you do is, when I stepped in the cow stable or somewhere so I couldn’t see, you removed some of the bales in the mow and reset them, so I wouldn’t know which bale the thing was in.”