August 25
Posted by sydney on Aug 25th, 2008
- 1789: August 25, 1789 – Sweet harvest weather. Wheat ricked & housed. Mr & Mrs S. Barker, & Miss E. Barker left us.
- 1785: August 25, 1785 – The dripping season has, this day, lasted six weeks; it has done some harm to the wheat, & retarded wheat-harvest; but has been of infinite service to the grass, & turnips, &c.
- 1784: August 25, 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.
- 1783: August 25, 1783 – Muscae domesticae swarm in the kitchen. When the sun breaks-out, the roofs, & grass-walks reek. Men cut their field-beans.
- 1782: August 25, 1782 – Clays pond runs over. Not one wasp or hornet to be seen: nor if there were, is there any fruit to support them. On such a summer, it seems quite a wonder that the whole race is not extinct.
- 1780: August 25, 1780 – The thermomr which on the stair-case stood at 67, in the wine-vault became 60 3/4; & again when it was 66 on the stair-case, by being plunged into a bucket of water, fresh-drawn, it fell to 51.
- 1775: August 25, 1775 – Sr Simeon Stuart begins to pick his hops. Wasps have begun on the grapes. Seventeen wasps nests destroyed. Peaches are gathered every day, being injured by the wasps: they are not full ripe. *Twaite, in Saxon is ground cleared from wood, & plowed; Woddan is not a way, but the verb to go: wud is wood in Saxon.
- 1773: August 25, 1773 – Tho’ there was a brisk air from the S. all the afternoon; yet the clouds in an upper region flew swiftly all the while from ye N. in great quantities.
- 1772: August 25, 1772 – Much wheat abroad. Strong gusts. Much rain. The ground is well-moistened.
- 1771: August 25, 1771 – Wheat not ripe at Faringdon. Winter weather. Oats & barley ripe before wheat.
- 1770: August 25, 1770 – Wheat begins to be housed. Trenched out celeri.
- 1769: August 25, 1769 – Great showers about. Male & female ants migrate at a great rate filling the ground & air.
- 1768: August 25, 1768 – Cucumber plants begin to decline. Tyed up endive. Large showers about.
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