October 3, 1787

Posted by sydney on Oct 3rd, 1787

Men sow wheat; but wish for more rain to moisten their fallows.  The quantity of potatoes planted in this parish was very great, & the produce, on ground unused to that root, prodigious.  David Long had two hundred bushels on half an acre.  Red or hog potatoes are sold for six pence pr bushel.  Mr Churton left us & went to Waverley: Nep. Tom & Harry left us, & went to Fyfield.

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