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Tag Archives: newspaper cutting
23.1.40
Evidently a little more snow in the night. Milder, but no thaw. 6 eggs. Am not counting one that was laid on the floor of the pullets’ house & was broken. There were 3 there altogether, so at any rate … Continue reading
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
8.9.39
Hot. Blackberries not ripe yet. Have lifted the remained of the early potatoes, which are very poor, only about 5 potatoes to a root. 8 eggs. [NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS] Curing a Goat Skin. – The skin should be as free from … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackberries, cured, curing, eggs, fruit, goat, goat skin, newspaper cutting, out-of-reach fruit, potatoes
5 Comments
17.6.39.
Fine, fairly warm. Sowed carnations (mixed perennial). Put roofing felt on henhouse. Paid for felt 9d a yard. Both goats’ milk badly down, no doubt owing to being unable to graze yesterday. Being indoors also seems to affect their appetite … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged carnations, egg total, henhouse, how to make concrete fence posts, milk-yield, newspaper cutting
2 Comments
16.6.39.
Heavy rain in the night, raining on & off most of the day, till about 5pm. when it cleared up. Too wet to do much out of doors. Placed strings for beans (much too low), began preparing a patch for … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged beans, Canterbury bells, cream cheese, goat's milk, grass, grit for hens, heavy rain, newspaper cutting, potatoes, pullets, recipe, strawberries, weather
7 Comments
29.5.39.
Very fine & warm. Netted strawberries. Took M. to the billy but fear she is not on heat. Mr N.[1] says they usually only are on autumn-spring. M. greatly afraid of a cow. The cow, on the other hand, frightened … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bird feed, goat, mash, Mr. N., Muriel on heat, newspaper cutting, weather
8 Comments
27.5.39
Overcast in the morning, fine & warm in the afternoon. Blue speedwell & bugle out everywhere. Buttercups about at their tallest. Dandelions seeding. Large toadstools in the fields. Strawed strawberries. Applied sodium chlorate to the remaining patch under the walnut … Continue reading
16.5.39.
[from 16 May the Diary is again in Orwell’s hand] London: Weather for the most part showery, with fine intervals. In Greenwich Park, chestnuts, pink chestnuts (but not Spanish ones) in flower, also lilac, hawthorn. Some of the wild ducks … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chestnuts, ducklings, Greenwich Park, hawthorn, lilac, newspaper cutting, recipes, tulips, uses for sour milk, wallflowers
25 Comments
22.4.39.
Cold & windy, with some sunny intervals & a few spots of rain. Flag irises budding. Some apple blossom full out. Planted early potatoes (Eclipse, about 10lb.) Procured two broody hens, but not putting them on the eggs till tomorrow, … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apple blossom, broody hens, eclipse potatoes, flag irises, nettles have their uses, newspaper cutting, water hens, weather
5 Comments
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