The flax was dried at a kiln in the field. There was a fire lit at the back of a ditch and a "scay" was put around it. About four feet from the fire the flax was put on the "scay to dry". The flax was then beetled. There was a large stone set in the ground and a place dug around it for those that were beetling. Three single streaks were scutched at first and then it was doubled and called a "dooley" and if the flax was good from eleven to thirteen "dooleys" would make a stone.