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Tag Archives: crops
9.9.39
Very hot. Dug up 3rd batch of peas & dug over that piece of ground. Red mite again very bad. Most of the leghorns now moulting but not so many of the Rhodes. Notice that the birds’ appetites always drop … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chicken, crops, egg total, eggs, food, fowl, grain, homegrown, leghorn, newspaper cutting, peas, poultry, red mite, rhode island red, smallholder
3 Comments
VILLA SIMONT, 12.3.39 [1]
Troops[2] returning from manoeuvres[3] passed the house a few days back, to the number of about 5000 men, more than half of[4] these Senegalese. The spahis look pretty good, general physique better than the average of the population. Horses about … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged ammunition, crops, Foreign Legion, Foreign Legionnaires, newspaper bias, newspapers, Spahis, troops, wages, war
21 Comments
VILLA SIMONT, 10.12.38
Cannot get any definite idea of the system of land tenure here, whether the peasants own their own plots, whether they rent them etc. Land appears to be held in plots of two or three acres upwards. Evidently there are … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged advertisments, begging, crops, irrigation, labourers, land distribution, newspapers, ploughing, wages
19 Comments
VILLA SIMONT, ROUTE DE CASABLANCA 1.11.38
Cannot yet get any definite ideas as to the land system here. All the land round here is either cultivated or what passes as cultivable, except for a few spurs of hills. We are just within the edge of the … Continue reading
Posted in Political
Tagged crops, hostility towards Jews, land distribution, ploughing, price of commodities, Ramadan, sheep, troops, typical Arab village, vegetables
8 Comments
August 25, 1938, Preston Hall
Everything in Suffolk is much more dried-up than in Kent. Until the day we arrived there had been no rain for many weeks & various crops had failed. Near S’wold saw several fields of oats & barley being harvested which … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bedstraw hawk-moth, brown owl, cloth-pegs, crops, gipsies, hop-picking, smooth snake, Suffolk, white owl
29 Comments
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