September 10
Posted by sydney on Sep 10th, 2008
- 1791: September 10, 1791 – Young broods of swallows come out. Cut 171 cucumbers; in all 424 this week. Sweet moon light!
- 1790: September 10, 1790 – Cut 140 cucumbers. Hops light, & not very good. Sister Barker & Molly & Betsy left us, & went to London: Charles White also, & Bessy returned to Fyfield.
- 1785: September 10, 1785 – Boys bring the 26th wasp’s nest. Mens second crop of clover cut, & spoiled by the rains. A bad prospect with respect to winter fodder! Farmer Spencer sows some wheat-stubbles with rye for spring feed.
- 1784: September 10, 1784 – Uncrested wrens seem to be withdrawn. Mr Richardson’s wall fruit at Bramshot-place is not good-flavoured, nor well-ripened & his vines are so injured by the cold, black summer, as not to be able to produce any fruit, or good wood for next year. Mr Dennis’s vines at Bramshot also are in poor state.
- 1783: September 10, 1783 – Gathered-in the white pippins, a great crop. Cleansed-out the zig-zag. Tho. Holt White, & Henry Holt White came. Bessy White, Sam White, & Ben Woods came from Fyfield. The Virginian Creeper is grown up to the eaves; but will probably shoot no farther, as the leaves at bottom begin to turn red. Total eclipse of the moon.
- 1781: September 10, 1781 – Red-breasts feed on elder-berries, enter rooms, & spoil the furniture. Bror. T. & M. came to Selborne. Timothy, whose appetite is now on the decline, weighs only 7 pounds & 3/4 of an ounce: at Midsummer he wighed 7 ae 1 oun.
- 1780: September 10, 1780 – The motions of Timothy the tortoise are much circumscribed: he has taken to the border under the fruit-wall, & makes very short excursions: he sleeps under a Marvel of Peru. Lapwings frequent the upland fallows.
- 1779: September 10, 1779 – Gloomy, still, sultry, soft showers.
- 1774: September 10, 1774 – Oats housed all day. Swifts retire usually between the 10th & the 20th of Aug: flycatchers, stoparolae, which are the latest summer birds of passage, not appearing ’til the 20 of May, withdraw about the 6th of September.
- 1773: September 10, 1773 – Sad harvest & hop-picking weather! Rain damages the wall-fruit.
- 1772: September 10, 1772 – Swallows & martins congregate in vast clouds.
- 1771: September 10, 1771 – Spring sown wheat is cut. Hirundines swarm under the hanger.
- 1770: September 10, 1770 – The hop-picking at Farnham is just beginning. About 8,000 people beside natives are employed. A vast crop. Much wall fruit at Farnham castle; but void of flower.
- 1769: September 10, 1769 – Land rail.
- 1768: September 10, 1768 – Hedge-hogs bore holes in the grass-walks to come at the plantain roots, which they eat upwards.
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