August 25, 1784
Posted by sydney on Aug 25th, 1784
Sad harvest weather. This proves a very expensive, & troublesome harvest to the farmers. Pease suffer much & will be lost out of the pod. My great apricot-tree appeared in the morning to have been robbed of some of it’s ripe fruit by a dog that had stood on his hind legs, & eaten-off some of the lower apricots, several of which were gnawn, & left on the ground, with some shoots of the tree. On the border were many fresh prints of a dogs feet. I have know a dog eat ripe goose-berries, as they hung on the trees. Many wallnuts on the tree over the stable: the sort is good, but the tree seldom bears.