Hay

And he has written of it with a tenderness which does not fail him in his most critical moods.

William Dean Howells Recollections of Life in Ohio from 1813 to 1840 Chapter 1 Birth, Welsh Ancestry, Quaker Origin, Boyish Martyrdom for Religion, Birthright, Emigration to America, Law Against Emigration of Manufacturers, Family Castles in Spain I was born in the village of Hay on the River Wye in the county of Brecon in South Wales on the 15th of May, 1807.

My father, Joseph Howells, was a native of the same place, and as I have heard, was born in the same house and same room as myself in 1783 in the month of June.

His father, Thomas Howells, who was by trade a watchmaker, had followed his business in London where he also married.

He soon after settled in Hay, which was near his native place in the adjoining county of Radnor, and engaged in the manufacture of Welsh flannels, a favorite style of woolen goods at that time.

In this he seems to have been very successful and to have accumulated considerable property, which gave him the means of maintaining a good social position.

He and a brother, William, when young men, left Radnor and went to London to begin life as watchmakers.

At my birth, a certificate was given by those present according to the custom of Friends in England, where it was made to serve in some degree the purpose of the parish record.

The strongest point of contrast is, however, that both the traditions concerning Nixon and the story of Turpin's ride represent the distance as being ridden upon one horse.

It happens that a similar feat was attempted in 1773 by two gentlemen named Walker and Hay, who, having a dispute over their wine concerning the merits of their respective horses, agreed to decide it by riding from London to York.

Walker's horse dropped, utterly exhausted, six miles from Tadcaster, but Captain Mulcaster, who rode Hay's mare, reached Ouse Bridge at York and won the wager.

The time, however, was forty hours and a half instead of sixteen, and the winner of the wager did not perform Turpin's feats of leaping over donkey carts and turnpike gates by way of interlude.

From this digression, let us return to the pilgrims on the dusty road to Rochester.

Skin the Fox.

Sow the Hay.

Sell the Hay.

The Monkey.

The Combs.

And you have, what do you call, what's the, this escapes me in the barn.

Not the sheep, but what do they graze on? Huh? Hay.

Exactly.

Hay that they step on.

That's what it is.

It's like hay that had been crushed.

There's the...

So it's H-A-Y as in he's sitting on a bale of hay and then the hoe is the thing that you use, you know, to get the weeds as opposed to...

Hay! Hoe!

Yeah,

Their names would sound odd to the card players of this day, and I give some of the oddest on the list so that you may know what queer games were then the fashion with the giant and his friends.

The Bamboozler, The Potatoes, Scotch Hoppins, The Cows, The Tables, To Steal Mustard, Skin the Fox, Sow the Hay, Sell the Hay, The Monkey, The Combs, The Coatbrush, Nine Hands, Partridges, The Keys, The Birch Tree, Nine Pins, I Pinch Thee Without Laughing, Figs of Marseille, Draw the Spit.

Each of these games took a whole day, lasting between dinner and the time to enjoy a nap.

Gargantua always thought it necessary to prepare for his afternoon sleep by taking a little drink.

They also displayed two one-of-one Magnum tractors, the Heartland Magnum and the Providence Magnum, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S.

In Hay and Forage, the new WD-6 series windrowers add real-time infield yield mapping to and an active hydraulic flotation system designed to maintain consistent ground pressure for improved cutting performance.

And I personally, we don't run Fent on our operation, but the Fent combine, all black, it always looks slick going through the demo fields and catches my eye certainly walking through the Farm Progress showgrounds.

Well,

More on that as well in this week's paper and online.

Now, last week, Niamh Murphy was at the launch of the Organic Beef and Lamb Innovation Group.

There she caught up with the Minister for Agriculture, Martin Hayden, on organic farming targets and the budget.

Minister, how can the sector address the leakage of organic beef and lamb? And is this a job for Borbia to increase marketing?

So every stakeholder has a role to play, including Borbia, including farmers, including processors.