title: Farm Tales: Stories Straight from the Pasture
author: Heather Hill
description: Heather Hill grew up in southern Michigan. Now she resides in western Canada with her young family. Four kids keep this stay-at home mom pretty busy. Still, she somehow manages to find time to put her thoughts to printer.
zlib_text: TED  
  HUGHES
  
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  # _Moortown  
  Diary _
  
  ![alt](Images/image00046.jpeg)
  
  In memory of Jack Orchard
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  Title Page  
  Dedication  
  Preface  
  Rain  
  Dehorning  
  Poor birds  
  Feeding out-wintering cattle at twilight  
  Foxhunt  
  New Year exhilaration  
  Struggle  
  Bringing in new couples  
  Snow smoking as the fields boil  
  Tractor  
  Roe-deer  
  Couples under cover  
  Surprise  
  Last night  
  Ravens  
  February 17th  
  March morning unlike others  
  Turning out  
  She has come to pass  
  Birth of Rainbow  
  Orf  
  Happy calf  
  Coming down through Somerset  
  Little red twin  
  Teaching a dumb calf  
  Last load  
  While she chews sideways  
  Sheep  
  The day he died  
  A monument  
  The formal auctioneer  
  A memory  
  Now you have to push  
  Hands  
  Notes  
  About the Author  
  Copyright  
  
  # Preface
  
  In the early 1970s my wife and I bought a small farm just north of the
  northern edge of Dartmoor, in what is generally known as North Devon, and
  farmed it in partnership with her father, Jack Or