Summertime in Powys: House Martins, Hay-Making and Hens

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Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive

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Summertime in Powys: House Martins, Hay-Making and Hens

Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive
Maesmawr Hall
1957-01-01
Silent
13m

At Maesmawr Hall, Welshpool, house martins are nesting, the elderflower is out, lambs and calves have arrived, donkeys are being donkeys and mangolds are being scuffle hoed. Then comes the hay-making, the tedder rolling/aerating the hay, the baler turning out loose bales. Hand-raking hay into rounded stooks takes place at a farm visited in the Aran Fawddwy valley. Mrs Evans from the Lodge shows the Trant girls how to feed a bantam hen and chicks with meal and water by hand.

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