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Tag Archives: ploughing
1.1.40
Freezing again last night. Today thawing in the sun but freezing in the shade. Some children able to slide on the ice of one of the ponds. They are ploughing in places, which the earth is not too hard for … Continue reading
28.3.39.
On board ss. Yasukunimaru (N.Y.K) in bay° of Biscay. The following was written in Marrakech on 21.3.39 to be written into diary when the latter was unpacked:- Until this afternoon, the last 3 or 4 days astonishingly cold. Two days … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged animals mating, Bay of Biscay, camels, frogs, Lyautey, monkies, ostriche, peacocks, ploughing, public gardend, ss. Yasukunimaru, tortoise, weather, wildflowers
5 Comments
16.3.39.
Yesterday not quite so hot, overcast & clouds of dust. Ditto today, probably presaging rain. Other wildflowers here: a small kind of scabius°, several vetches, one of them very pretty, with a flower about the size of that of a … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged camel cub, cavalry, greenfinches, marigold, ploughing, scabius, vetch, weather, wildflowers
16 Comments
20.2.39
Wallflowers (good specimens) are blooming at the café near here. Pomegranate trees just putting forth their buds, which are brilliant red. Weeds pretty thick everywhere. This is probably as green as the country ever gets, but there are still considerable … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged flies, heat, pigeon, ploughing, pomegranates, storks, Taddert, wallflowers, weeds
15 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
5.12.38
Three eggs. On a patch which I saw being ploughed 30th October or a day or two earlier, the grain is now 4-6” high. Oranges now ripe & on sale everywhere. Pomegranates now on sale are over-ripe & quite a … Continue reading
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
1.11.38
Fine, not at all hot. People ploughing everywhere. The plough stirs the soil about 4” to 6” deep. The soil varies greatly & some of it looks rather good. Large patches which were perhaps cultivated a year ago have been … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged goat giving birth, goats, marigold, nasturtiums, ploughing, pomegranates, wheat
3 Comments
31.10.38
Ditto. One egg. Inside bad again. Fruit on sale here much resembling a strawberry, but full of pips & has an unpleasant sour taste. Put paraffin on water in the fountain yesterday. About 30 square feet, & about a cupful … Continue reading
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