Weather troubles

Weather troubles always with us

It seems the weather was just as predictable in 1887 as 1967.
Mr. C.G. Walker, of 176 Main Road, Amington, has loaned to the ‘Herald’ what appears to be a page torn from a farmer’s log and headed “Harlaston October 15 1887.”
The page begins with details of a severe frost with ice five-eighths of an inch thick.
The writer states: This has been the driest year I have ever known.”
Then he gives a graphic description of a thunderstorm on August 18, which ended three hot summer days and “shook all the swallows’ nests out of the eaves of my house and breaking the windows at the Mill, killed a sow at Fletcher’s and a horse at Helloly Hogshill.”
“But from that time,” he continues, “we have had so little rain, the ponds are yet all dry.”
The autumn diary ends with details of the harvest and crop yields per acre. “Altogether we thought there were 26 bags of grain on 1 1/2 acres and I think nearly all the wheat is now sown.” he writes.