On Jun 22, 11:05*am, "W. D. Grey" wrote:
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DaveS writes

On Jun 21, 8:24*pm, "W. D. Grey" wrote:

Yes, On the A484, a truely beautiful streach, but scary with all the
curves. Then to Cardigan and North down the A847, mostly a great road.
Its my limited understanding that Wales avoided most of the enclosure
commission efforts so the "B" roads and lessers are the mostly intact
net of the middle ages. Is that more or less the case?

Beautiful grazing country. But tell me this: why so little land
devoted to row crops, grain, peas or alfalfa? A lot of the land looks
tillable, and needy of nitrogen, which the alfalfa and peas (legumes)
fix copiously?

Can't say, but I know a lot of cattle and sheep rearing oges on in W
Wales.



Today hiked a bit of the Coast trail North out of LLangranog. Ran into
some fly fishers headed out to fish the far points of
Ynys- Lochtyn, a high rock stack with a sheep pasture on top, pointing
out into the Irish sea. Friendly folks.Have good sketch and notes for
a painting of the point.

Nos da
Dave

Thank you Dave,

A Nos Da i chwi hefyd.
--
Bill Grey

Talked to guy outside a pub where I tried 3 Dragons for the first time
today (great stuff) after a hike up thru the gorge of the River Teifi,
and he said that essentially the sun days in this area limited grain
yields, while further South yields were much higher. Thus the focus on
dairy and livestock. The3se folks produce wonderful cheeses which sell
at prices much lower than comparable US cheeses. There is quite a
local food/organic food/slow food/fresh food movement here.

This fellow seemed very ag knowledgable and thought the same climate
factors limited alfalfa to 1-2 cuttings a season, whereas we get 3-4
on the dryside of Washington on fertile irrigated land. I still think
field corn and sialage corn, with peas in the rotation could make
sense here and be compatible with beef/lamb/hog production. Anyway its
all interesting to see how land and other resources are managed in
other places. Nos da
Dave
Turns out our neighbor here is the Welsh comedian Dewi Pws.