August 12

Posted by sydney on Aug 12th, 2008
  • 1792: August 12, 1792 – The thermometer for three or four days past has stood in the shade at Newton at 79, & 80.
  • 1791: August 12, 1791 – Men bind their wheat all day.  The harvesters complain of heat.  The hand-glass cucumbers begin to bear well: red kidney beans begin to pod.
  • 1790: August 12, 1790 – Sister Barker, & nieces, Mary, & Eliz. came.
  • 1789: August 12, 1789 – The planters think these foggy mornings, & sunny days, injurious to their hops.
  • 1787: August 12, 1787 – Bull-finches feed on the berries of honey-suckles.  B. Hall came.
  • 1785: August 12, 1785 – Black-caps eat the berries of the honey-suckle, now ripe.  Pheasant-cocks crow.
  • 1784: August 12, 1784 – Wheat housing at Heards.
  • 1782: August 12, 1782 – Swifts about Windsor.
  • 1780: August 12, 1780 – Dust flies. Gardens suffer from want of rain. Much wheat bound. Timothy, in the beginning of May, after fasting all the winter, weighed only six pounds & four ounces averdupoise; is now encreased to six pounds & 15 ounces, averdupoise.
  • 1778: August 12, 1778 – My well sinks very much.
  • 1775: August 12, 1775 – Full moon.  High tides frequently discompose the weather in places so near the coast, even in the dryest, most settled season, for a day or two.
    *Cimices lineares are now in high copulation on ponds & pools.  The females, who vastly exceed the males in bulk, dart & shoot along the surface of the water with the males on their backs.  When a female chuses to be disenegaged, she rears & jumps & plunges like an unruly colt; the lover, thus dismounted, soon finds a new mate.  The females as fast as their curiosities are satisfied retire to another part of the lake, perhaps to deposit their foetus in quiet: hence the sexes are found separate except where generation is going-on.  From the multitude of minute young of all gradations of size, thses insects seem without doubt to be viviparous.
  • 1774: August 12, 1774 – Fly-catchers bring out young broods.  Mich. daisy blows.  Apricots ripen.  Some martins, dispossessed of their nests by sparrows, return to them again when their enemies are shot, & breed in them.  Several pairs of martins have not yet brought forth their first brood.  They meet with interruptions, & leave their nests.
  • 1770: August 12, 1770 – Lapwings flie in parties to the downs as it grows dusk.

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