September 4
Posted by sydney on Sep 4th, 2008
- 1792: September 4, 1792 – Hop-picking becomes general; & the women leave their gleaning in the wheat-stubbles. Wheat grows as it stands in the shocks.
- 1789: September 4, 1789 – Mr Thomas Mulso comes from London. Wry-necks, birds so called, appear on the grass-plots and walks: they walk a little as well as hop, & thrust their bills into the turf, in quest, I conclude, of ants, which are their food. While they hold their bills in the grass, they draw out their prey with their tongues, which are so long as to be coiled round their heads.
- 1788: September 4, 1788 – Vast showers about. Were all wet thro’ in our return from Faringdon. Under the eaves of an house at Faringdon are 22 martin’s nests, 12 of which contain second broods now nearly fledge: they put out their heads, & seem to long to be on the wing.
- 1787: September 4, 1787 – Vast numbers of partidges. A young fern-owl shot at Newton.
- 1786: September 4, 1786 – Cut my new rick; the hay is good.
- 1785: September 4, 1785 – Boys bring the 25th wasp’s nest.
- 1784: September 4, 1784 – My Nep. Edmund White launched a balloon on our down, made of a soft, thin paper; & measuring about two feet & a half in length, & 20 inches in diameter. The buoyant air was supplyed at bottom by a plug of wooll, wetted with spirits ofwine, & set on fire by a candle. The air being cold & moist this machine did not succeed well abroad; but in Mr Yalden’s stair-case it rose to the ceiling, & remained suspended as long as the spirits continued to flame, & then sunk gradually. These Gent. made the balloon themselves. This small exhibition explained the whole balloon affair very well: but the position of the flame wanted better regulation; because the least oscillation set the paper on fire. Golden weather, red even.
- 1783: September 4, 1783 – Tremella nostoc appears on the walks. Tho’ the weather may have been ever so dry & burning, yet after two or three wet days this strange jelly-like substance abounds.
- 1782: September 4, 1782 – Began to cut the first endive: finely blanched. Curlews clamour.
- 1781: September 4, 1781 – Gathered one bunch of black grapes, which was ripe & well-flavoured. It grew close to the wall, pressed down by a bough.
- 1780: September 4, 1780 – The trufle-man came & hunted my brother’s grove for the first time: but found only half a pound of trufles, & those shrivelled & decayed, for want of moisture.
- 1778: September 4, 1778 – Ladies-traces blow, & abound in the long Lithe. A rare plant. * The young house-martins of the first flight are often very troublesome by attemtping to get into the nest among the second callow broods; while their dams are as earnest to keep them out, & drive them away.
- 1775: September 4, 1775 – Linnets congregate. Wasps swarm about the Grapes, tho’ so many nests have been destroyed.
- 1774: September 4, 1774 – Wood-owls hoot much.
- 1772: September 4, 1772 – Spring corn in a bad way where cut. Barley in general not ripe. Hot & moist. Grass grows.
- 1771: September 4, 1771 – Hop-picking begins. Hops small. Much wheat not ripe yet.
- 1770: September 4, 1770 – The ring-ousel appears again in it’s autumnal visit; but about twenty days earlier than usual.
- 1769: September 4, 1769 – Hop-picking begins. A very slender crop.
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