December 6
Posted by sydney on Dec 6th, 2008
- 1790: December 6, 1790 – Mr. Richardson came.
- 1789: December 6, 1789 – A bushel of American wheat, which Bro. Tho. sent last year to one of his tenants in the hundreds of Essex from Nore hill, produced this harvest 40 bushels of seed: — and is much admired in that district, because from the stiffness of it’s straw it does not lodge. Wheat is so apt to lodge in these parts, that they are often obliged to mow it down in the blade about May, lest it should fall flat to the ground. This process they call swonging.
- 1788: December 6, 1788 – The millers around complain that their streams fail, & they have no water for grinding.
- 1787: December 6, 1787 – Five or six bats were flying round my chimnies at the dawn of the day. Bats come forth at all times of the year when ye Thermr is at 50, because at such a temperament of the air Phalaenae are stirring, on which they feed.
- 1784: December 6, 1784 – Dismally dark: no wind with this very sinking glass.
- 1780: December 6, 1780 – Planted out Sweet-Williams, vine, & goose-berry cuttings, honey-suckle cuttings; & several crab stocks grafted from a curious & valuable green apple growing at South Lambeth in Surrey.
- 1776: December 6, 1776 – Few worms lie-out on the common.
- 1773: December 6, 1773 – White wag-tail.
- 1772: December 6, 1772 – A dead young rook, about half-grown was found in a nest on one of Mr Pink’s trees near his house.
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