October 17
Posted by sydney on Oct 17th, 2008
- 1791: October 17, 1791 – Saw a wood-cock on the down among the fern: Fyfield flushed it.
- 1790: October 17, 1790 – Gracious street stream is dry from James Kinght’s ponds, where it rises, to the foot bridge at the bottom of the church litton closes. Near that bridge, in the corner, the spring is perennial, & runs to Dorton, where it joins the Well-head stream.
- 1787: October 17, 1787 – Gathered-in the last apples, in all about 8 bushels. Planted 100 cabbages to stand the winter.
- 1785: October 17, 1785 – Timothy Turner finished the mowing of Bakers-hill.
- 1783: October 17, 1783 – Mowed & burnt the dead grass in my fields. Rooks on the hill attended by a numerous flock of starlings. The tortoise gets under the laurel-hedge, but does not bury himself. Neps. T. H. & H. Holt white returned from Fyfield. … “a crouded umbrage, dusk & dun,/Of ev’ry hue, from wan, declining green;/To sooty dark.” Thomson.
- 1782: October 17, 1782 – No baking pears. Gathered-in medlars. Dug up carrots, a good crop, but small in size. THe tortoise not only gets into the sun under the fruit-wall; but he tilts one edge of his shell against the wall, so as to incline his back ot it’s rays: by which contrivance he obtains more heat than if he lay in his natural position. And yet this poor reptile has never read, that planes inclining to the horizon receive more heat from the sun than any other elevation! At four P.M. he retires to bed under the broad foliage of a holyhock. He has ceased to eat for some time.
- 1781: October 17, 1781 – Greatham-mill can work but 3 hours in the day.
- 1778: October 17, 1778 – Gathered-in the berberries, a great crop.
- 1775: October 17, 1775 – Turkies get up on the boughs of oaks in pursuit of acorns.
- 1769: October 17, 1769 – One martin appears.
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