We had a garden over thataway, cut hay in a field on the other side.

Alone, she cut hay in the meadow and built another stack.

At the age of 77, she occasionally drives a tractor to cut hay.

In nearby fields, men and women cut hay with scythes.

She is 85, twice widowed and still gets out on her '58 Ford tractor to cut hay.

Because the grass is fairly good, the pioneers spend the early hours cutting hay for the cattle.

He cut hay in the nearby meadow and stacked it for the winter feeding.

He dropped the ax under a tree, and bent to cut hay.

You've a meadow or two where you can cut hay, and there's water.

This is a common time for farmers to cut hay or do other farm labor.

Absently he noted bird songs, scents of cut hay, the rustle of nettles brushing against his legs as he moved.

A rainstorm can ruin a field of cut hay.

LEAD: HOURS before the churchgoers began to stir, we set out on a valley road still fragrant with the smell of cut hay and last night's rain.

By early fall, the grass-covered hills were the color of cut hay and sprinkled with edelweiss.

A springloaded board at the outer end of the bar guides the cut hay away from the uncut hay.

Cameron and Menzies recognized the swaying shoulders of men leaning as they scythed, the reach and drag of women raking and turning the cut hay.

The four-wheel-drive system engaged as she smashed through a wood fence and started bouncing wildly through a field of cut hay.

Green pastures alternated with plowed sod and the tawny stubble of cut hay; hedgerows and stone walls made graceful patterns on the rolling hills.

Victor Amery saw it nosedive, explode in a field of cut hay and catch fire, burning debris everywhere setting the hay alight.

If the weather is too wet, the cut hay may spoil in the field before it can be baled.