July 23

Posted by sydney on Jul 23rd, 2008
  • 1789: July 23, 1789 – Farmer Knight sold two loads of wheat for 36 ae!  Brisk gale.  Hay makes well.
  • 1788: July 23, 1788 – An other wasps nest.  Wheat blited at Oakhanger.  Oakhanger-ponds empty: they were sewed in the spring.
  • 1787: July 23, 1787 – Young red-breasts, a second brood.  Notwithstanding the showery season, the aphides encrease on the hops.
  • 1785: July 23, 1785 – Some water in the pond on the down.  Mr. Edmd White’s tank has four feet of water.
  • 1783: July 23, 1783 – Turnips (field) thrive, & are hoeing.
  • 1782: July 23, 1782 – Will. Tanner shot a sparrow-hawk, which had infested the village for some time.  It had lately made havock among the young swallows, & h. martins which are slow & inactive: the dams insult all hawks with impunity.
  • 1781: July 23, 1781 – Of those China hollyhocks that stood the winter the tall ones are plain & single: the stunted ones are double & variegated.
  • 1779: July 23, 1779 – Golden-crowned wrens, & creepers bring-out their broods.
  • 1776: July 23, 1776 – Walnuts abound, but are rather small & spotted.
  • 1775: July 23, 1775 – Birds are much influenced in their choice of food by colour: for tho’ white currans are a much sweeter fruit than red; yet they seldom touch the former ’til they have devoured every bunch of the latter.  The male & female ants of the little yellow & little black sorts, leaving their nests, fill the air.  The females seem big with eggs.  They also run about on the turf, & seem in great agitation.  The females wander away, & form new colonies when pregnant.
  • 1773: July 23, 1773 – Turnips begin to be hoed.  In general a good crop.  The young clover among the corn is fine this year.
  • 1772: July 23, 1772 – Martins begin to congregate on the tower.
  • 1770: July 23, 1770 – Wheat is very backward: hardly any ears appear.  It is worthy of notice that on my clayey soils horses prefer grass that grows on a sand-walk, tho’ shaded & dripped by a tall hedge, to that which springs from the natural ground in a sunny & open situation.
  • 1768: July 23, 1768 – Martins begin to congregate on the maypole.  Ricked my little mead, & finish’d my Hay-making.

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