October 30, 1792
Planted 100 of cabbages, in ground well dunged, to stand the winter.
Planted 100 of cabbages, in ground well dunged, to stand the winter.
Finished piling my wood: housed the bavins; fallows very wet.
Thomas saw a polecat run across the garden.
Some few grapes just eatable: a large crop. Housed all the billet wood. Leaves fall in showers. A curlew is heard loudly whistling on the hill towards the Wadden. On this day Mrs S. Barker was brought to bed of a boy, who advances my nepotes to the round & compleat number of 60.
Hired two old labourers to house my cleft billet wood, which is still in a dam, cold condition, & should have been under cover some months ago, had the weather permitted.
Made presents of berberries to several neighbours. Ring-ouzel seen in the King’s field.
Gathered in the dearling apples: fruit small, & stunted.
Dr Chandler mows the church-litton closes for hay. Farmer Parsons houses pease, which have been hacked for weeks. Barley abroad.
Master Hale houses barley that looks like old thatch. Much barley about the country, & some wheat. Some pheasants found in the manour. The sound of great guns was heard distinctly this day to the S.E. probably from Goodwood, where the Duke of Richmond has a detachment from the train of artillery encamped in his park, that he may try experiments with some of the ordnance.