August 15
Posted by sydney on Aug 15th, 2008
- 1791: August 15, 1791 – Lightening every moment in the W. & the N.W. Cut 114 cucumbers. Harvesters complain of the violent heat.
- 1790: August 15, 1790 – The last gathering of wood-strawberries. Bull-finches & red-breasts eat the berries of the honey-suckles.
- 1786: August 15, 1786 – Planted cuttings of dames violets, & slips of pinks under hand-glasses: planted also more sweet williams, & polyanths.
- 1785: August 15, 1785 – Sam & Charles came from Fyfield. The harvest seasons are very beautiful! Farmer Spencer makes a hay-rick. Wheat very fine and heavy.
- 1784: August 15, 1784 – Women bring cran-berries, but they are not ripe.
- 1783: August 15, 1783 – Took this morning by bird-lime on the tips of hazel-twigs several hundred wasps that were devouring the goose-berries. A little attention this way makes vast riddance, & havock among these plundering invaders.
- 1782: August 15, 1782 – Potatoes for the first time. Thierteen swifts over the Lythe: seven at Harteley. Do they not at this season move from village to village? The hay is all badly spoiled; & men begin to fear that the wheat will grow as it stands. That which is lodged is in much danger. A fledged young swift was found alive on the ground in the church-yard: it was full of hippoboscae. We gave it two or three flies, & tossed it up on the church. Gathered one handful of kidney beans. The ground is quite glutted with rain.
- 1777: August 15, 1777 – Male & female ants come forth & migrate in vast troops: every ant-hill is in strange commotion & hurry. The pair of martins which began to build on June 21 brought-out their brood this day in part: (the rest remain in the nest, Aug 17)
- 1776: August 15, 1776 – Sun, & clouds, sultry, showers about.
- 1775: August 15, 1775 – Dark & still. Some little farmers have finished wheat-harvest.
- 1774: August 15, 1774 – Showers & sun. Meonstoke a sweet district.
- 1773: August 15, 1773 – Hops visible improved by the thunder. If the swifts are gone, as they seem to be, they can never breed but once in a summer; since the swallows & martins in general are but now laying their eggs for a second brood. As young swifts never perch or congregate on buildings I can never be sure exctly whenthey come forth. The retreat of the swifts so early is a wonderful fact : & yet it is more strange still, that they withdraw full as soon in the summer at Gibraltar! Swifts sat hard Hune 9th.
- 1772: August 15, 1772 – On this day at 10 in the morning some sober & intelligent people felt at Noar hill what they thought to be a slight shock of an earthquake. A mother and her son perceived the house to tremble at the same time while one was aboe stairs & the other below; & each called to the other to know what was the matter. A young man, in the field near, heard a strange rumbling. Notwithstanding the long severe drought the little pond on the common contains a considerable share of water in spite of evaporation, & the multitude of cattle that drink at it. Have ponds on such high situations a power, unkown to us, of recruiting from the air? Evaporation is probably less on the tops of hills; but cattle use a vast proportion of the whole stock of water in a small pond.
- 1768: August 15, 1768 – Young broods of goldfinches appear.
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