Answer:

The youngest man doesn't complain about modern youth nor taxation, for both these complainants are older than someone. Similarly, the man who complains about foreigners has two neighbours (the bald and red-haired peasants) and so is not sitting at the end of the row. Hence the youngest peasant complains about the Ubar. This is the red-haired peasant, and so the next older peasant complains about foreigners and the next older than him is the bald peasant. Since this last does not complain about the idle youth of today, it must be the oldest peasant who does so and hence the second-oldest complains about taxation. This means that the third oldest peasant grows Suls.

The oldest peasant is not dark-haired, as this man is younger than someone, and so he must be fair-haired, which means he is the Sa-Tarna farmer. We already know that the oldest peasant can remember not knowing what a tarsk-bit looked like. Since the dark-haired peasant is younger than the man who can remember not being able to afford a roof for his hovel, this must be the bald man.

The man who remembers having dry wells is next younger than the man who brought cheese to market, and so these must be the dark-haired and bald peasants respectively.

Hence the red-haired man remembers the terrible winters, and he is also the man who brought vulos to market.

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