Hay Day will start with sharpening scythe with a dinglestock, says Raymond Zimmerman, president of the association. Volunteers will show how to cut hay with sickle and scythe and rake it by hand.

Before huge machines pressed hay into 1-ton bales, it was stacked in the field and had to be moved by hand. And before horse-drawn mowers cut a field quickly, it had to be cut by hand with a ...