October 12
Posted by sydney on Oct 12th, 2007
- 1792: October 12, 1792 – Gathered in the dearling apples: fruit small, & stunted.
- 1791: October 12, 1791 – Gathered cucumbers for picklers. One of my Apricot-trees withers, & looks as if it would die. Hunter’s moon rises early. Mrs Ben White left us, & took Tome with her, leaving Ben behind.
- 1790: October 12, 1790 – Gathered in near 4 bushels of dearling apples from the meadow tree: the crop is great, but the fruit is small.
- 1787: October 12, 1787 – Partridges, & pheasants are very shy, & wild. Bror Ben & wife left us & went to Newton.
- 1785: October 12, 1784 – The grass cut the last week in Septr. all lies rotting. My well begins to raise. It has been so low all this autumn as not to afford water sufficient for the occasions of the family. Had it not been for the frequent rains, we should have been at a loss, when we wanted to wash or brew.
- 1783: October 12, 1783 – The crop of acorns is so prodigious that the trees look quite white with them; & the poor make, as it were a second harvest of them, by gathering them at one shilling pr. bushel. At the same time not one beech-mast is to be seen. This plenty of acorns has raised store-pigs to an extravagant price.
- 1782: October 12, 1782 – The paths are dry & crisp. Men house barley ’till between ten & eleven at night. Pleasant starlight.
- 1781: October 12, 1781 – Farmer Parsons fetches a waggon-load of water from Dorton for brewing! Wells fail.
- 1780: October 12, 1780 – Spinage grown very large: a vast crop.
- 1779: October 12, 1779 – Bad fevers near Chichester.
- 1776: October 12, 1776 – The hanging beech-woods begin to be beautifully tinged, & to afford most lovely scapes, very engaging to the eye, & imagination. They afford sweet lights & shades. Maples are also finely tinged. These scenes are worthy the pencil of a Reubens.
- 1774: October 12, 1774 – Hops sold at Wey-hill fair from 2:16:0 to 4:4:0: & 5:0:0 to 5:10:0.
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