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Here and there on the upper marsh are the remains of hay ricks such as this. In the days when marsh hay was actively harvested, special cutting machines were pulled across the marsh by horses to cut the spartina patens. The cut hay was stacked in large mounds on tops of a bed of wooden stakes which was called a hay rick and which kept the bottom of the mound above tide level.
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