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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 133, 25 July 1941, Page 5

A "Taste" For Hay. Just as young folk acquire a tastv', for tea or something stronger, or smoke their first cigarette, so countless young cattle on farms of this district, although they have not quite reached their first birthday, are acquiring a taste for hay. Oldei cattle have become confirmed "hay addicts," and the veterans of the herds, bellow for their winter morn-* ing's hay just as Old King Cole 'm the nursery rhyme "called for his pipe and his bowii.On a cold day a feed of hay has a warming. eff:ect internally on cattle, just asi did presumably the contents of Old Kihg Cole's glass—or if one is a teetotaller, "the cup that cheers but does not inebriate." Taken aid round (b.v dray or waggon) "the hay's the thing!" So the cattle think when Jack Frost whitens thei pastures. So when the cows hear, see or smell the hay waggon they call out (in cow language) : "Hay there!"-— which being interpreted might mean "Since it's on the House I don''t mind if I do."