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Sept 1st.       All the corn in the village is now cut. Nice day.
15th. Finished harvest. Have been six weeks on the job.
Sold the wool 7/9 per stone. Potatoes 12/- per cwt.
Oct 5th. Weather still fine & dry. Too hard to plough. Had a days thrashing last week. The wheat yielded six quarters per acre of dressed corn. Barley 5/-. Prices are only low for good dry corn. Farm labourers wages were reduced 1/- per day a little while ago a further reduction is possible in the near future. A large number of men are out of work, 9 at Reighton.
Oct 9th. Beautiful Spring-like day. Saw Red Admiral butterfly.
Breeding sheep are less than half the price of a year ago.
Shearlings can be bought for 80/- to 90/- that would have cost £10 a year ago. 13th. The first tenants arrived at Wide Lane Villas to-day.
Weather still very dry. Drinking water scarse
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23rd. Very severe Northerly storm. Small steamer ashore at Primrose valley.
The crew were taken off by the Filey lifeboat.
24th. Vessel broken up. Good bit of wreckage passed here going South.
Small amount washed ashore here. The wrecked vessel was laden with phosphates.
Nov 6th. Big storm, heavy rain. Wind North, cold. There were some high tides during the week.
7th. White over with snow. 8th. Snow one foot deep.
14th. Snow nearly gone, fine & mild.
4th Dec. Body of unknown man found on the beach.
Stable fire at Pilmoor farm, Hunmanby. Eight horses were burnt to death or smothered. Weather cold & unsettled. Farm horsemens wages are down 25 per cent this Martinmas. A lot of men are not hired.
Dec 24. Submarine G.3. ashore near Crowes Shoot. L.S.A. found no one aboard. Weather open. Rather cold. Very high tides a week ago. Serious floods in Hull.
Many streets flooded.
The year of 1921 will be long remembered by farmers owing to the large fall in the prices of stock & corn.
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