The McCormick Reaper at work in the 1910s.  The man wearing the broad-brimmed hat is my grandfather, John Addison Alexander, Sr. 

According to records that my cousin Jim found, the Alexanders shipped hay by rail to Baltimore (and maybe other cities) to feed the horses that were used for transportation and other jobs in the cities.  In other words, hay was the gasoline of that time period. 

These records were in a bag of papers that Jim found when a hurricane took down the meat house.  The bag apparently had been moved to the Fultz farm from the Alexander farm after my grandfather died and after my grandmother moved back in with her mother.  And so the records sat from the 1920s until the 2000s when the hurricane came  through.  They make for interesting reading, though.