THE DIARY OF WILLIAM SELLERS

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Sept 1^st. All the corn in the village is now cut. Nice day.
15^th. Finished harvest. Have been six weeks on the job.
Sold the wool 7/9 per stone. Potatoes 12/- per cwt.
Oct 5^th. 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 9^th. 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. 13^th. The first tenants arrived at Wide Lane Villas to-day.
Weather still very dry. Drinking water scarse(sic)
23^rd. Very severe Northerly storm. Small steamer ashore at Primrose valley.
The crew were taken off by the Filey lifeboat.
24^th. Vessel broken up. Good bit of wreckage passed here going South.
Small amount washed ashore here. The wrecked vessel was laden with phosphates.
Nov 6^th. Big storm, heavy rain. Wind North, cold. There were some high tides during the week.
7^th. White over with snow. 8^th. Snow one foot deep.
14^th. Snow nearly gone, fine & mild.
4^th 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.