drying-racks

Updated: May 8, 2025

Winding up the broad deep rivers he passed numerous villages with patches of clearings surrounding the villages, and where fishing nets, or piles of wood, numerous hay stacks and cows, and occasionally a richer area where high drying-racks held the flax, told him that the people were occupied chiefly in fishing, trapping, wood-cutting, flax raising, small dairying, and raising of limited amounts of grain and vegetables.

Lewis E. Jahns - The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki: Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919