March 2
Posted by sydney on Mar 2nd, 2009
- 1791: March 2, 1791 – Seven cart-loads of hot dung carried in for the cucumber-bed: 5 loads from Hale, 1 from Parsons, & 1 of my own.
- 1790: March 2, 1790 – Sowed the meadow with ashes; of my own 22 bushels, bought 39: total 61.
- 1789: March 2, 1789 – Sowed the great meadow with ashes; with 49 bushels bought of neighbours, & with 28 bushels of our own: total 77.
- 1788: March 2, 1788 – A strong smell of London smoke.
- 1786: March 2, 1786 – Bull-finches injure the fruit-trees by eating the buds.
- 1778: March 2, 1778 – Snow in the night, sun, & mild.
- 1774: March 2, 1774 – Venus shadows.
- 1773: March 2, 1773 – Crocuss in high beauty.
- 1771: March 2, 1771 – Glass sinks steadily tho’ ye weather looks like dry. Turneps are all rotten, & the wheat-fields look quite bare, & destitute of all verdure. Farmer parsons sows wheat in his fallow behind Beacher’s shop, which was drowned in the winter Mem: to observe what crop he gets from this spring-sowing. The spring sowing round this village proved the finest wheat & best crop.
- 1769: March 2, 1769 – Wheat on the clays looks sadly poor & thin. Stormy wind by fits.
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