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Tag Archives: chicken feed
22.8.39.
Drizzle in the morning, rest of day fine & hot. The mist is now very thick in the early mornings. Dug some more of the patch for the leeks, gave liquid manure to larkspurs etc. E. planted some more godetias. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chicken feed, corn, ducks, egg book, Eileen, godetias, leeks, Marx, newts, nits, watersnail, weather
4 Comments
1.8.39.
Warm. A few drops of rain. Pricked[1] out wallflowers (yellow) & sweet williams. Calculate roughly that each row of peas (about 12 yards) will yield 15-20 lb. Started new cwt. Of wheat & kibbled maize today. This has to do … Continue reading
4.7.39.
Fine & hot. A few raspberries reddening. Phloxes in bud, also bergamot. Goats escaped this morning & ate a lot of fruit tree shoots, rose shoots & some tops of phloxes. Pullets still limping badly & fear some kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bergamot, chicken feed, ducklings, goats, limping pullet, phlox, raspberries, weather
3 Comments
14.4.39.
Cloudy, & a few small showers. Cold after dark. Saw two swallows (not martins). This is rather early for this locality & a latish year. No one else has seen any. All day cleaning out strawberries, which have not been … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chicken feed, chickens, Muriel, strawberries, swallow, wallflowers, weather
7 Comments
12.10.38
A lot cooler. No snow now visible on the Atlas, but perhaps obscured by clouds. Have installed the hens & goats. Hens about the size of the Indian fowl, but of all colours, some with a species of topknot, white … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chicken feed, chickens, goats, hens, lucerne, M. Simont, pomegranate, sheep
12 Comments
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