Stewart painted pictures depicting different crops as they ripened, especially alfalfa hay ready for harvest. Some of the artist's finest and most collectable pieces show the activity of farm workers in threshing and harvest scenes from the 1920s through the 1940s, such as this one. These paintings show the horse–drawn crib wagons with steel–banded wheels and boom–and–pedestal "Mormon hay stackers" lifting hay to the gigantic permanent stack. These splendid artworks effectively capture the sense of the rural landscape of the Latter–day Saints.