August 30
Posted by sydney on Aug 30th, 2008
- 1791: August 30, 1791 – Mr Hale begins his hops near the Pound field. Farmer Hoar says that during this late blowning weather his well was raised some rounds of the rope.
- 1790: August 30, 1790 – Cut 152 cucumbers. A fine harvest day: much wheat bound, & much gleaning gathered.
- 1789: August 30, 1789 – Michaelmass daisies begin to blow.
- 1786: August 30, 1786 – Hop picking becomes general. The women earn good wages this year: some of them pick 24 bush. in a day, at 3 half-pence per bushel.
- 1785: August 30, 1785 – The kings field is open to the down. No mushrooms to be found with us: the case was the same last year.
- 1783: August 30, 1783 – Planted-out in a bed a great number of Seedling-polyanths: seed from Bramshot-place.
- 1782: August 30, 1782 – The air is chilly, & has an October-feel.
- 1781: August 30, 1781 – Between nine & ten at night a thunder-storm whith much vivd lightening began to grow up from the N.W. & W.: but it took a circuit round to the S. & E. & so missed us. We had only the skirts of the tempest, & a little heavy rain for a short time. Ten miles off the the southward there were vast rains.
- 1777: August 30, 1777 – Finished tiling the new parlor in good dry condition just before the rain came. The wall & timbers will be in much better order for this circumstance. * The pair of martins brought-out all their young August 26: they still roost in the nest. The nest was begun June 21. Woolmer-forest produces young teals, & young large snipes; but never, that we can find, any young jack-snipes.
- 1776: August 30, 1776 – Mr Woods of Chilgrove thinks he improves his flock by turning the east-country poll-rams among his horned ewes. The east-country poll sheep have shorter legs, & finer wool; & black faces, & spotted fore-legs; & a tuft of wooll in their fore-heads. Much corn of all sorts still abroad. Was wetted thro’ on the naked downs near Parham-ash. Some cuckoos remain. N.B. From Lewes to Brightehelmstone, & thence to Beeding-hill, where the wheat-ear traps are frequent no wheat-ears are to be seen: But on the downs west of Beeding, we saw many. A plain proof this, that those traps make a considerable havock among that species of birds.
- 1774: August 30, 1774 – Pulled the first Wrench’s radishes: they are mild & well-flavoured: are long & tap-rooted: bright red above ground, & milk-white under.
- 1773: August 30, 1773 – Tyed up endives. Some people have finished wheat-harvest.
- 1772: August 30, 1772 – Mich. daisy begins to blow.
- 1771: August 30, 1771 – Young stoparolas abound. Swallows congregate in vast flocks. Wheat housed.
- 1768: August 30, 1768 – The goatsucker still appears.
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