Cbap. I.] JouRXAt.— July. 11 



18. Fine hot day. 



19. Rain all day. 



20. Fine hot day, and some wind. All dr}' again as 

 completely as if it had not rained for a year. 



21. Fine hot day; but heavy rain at night. Flies, 

 a feic. Not more than in England. My son John, 

 who has just returned from Pennsylvania, says they are 

 as great torments there as ever. At a friend's house 

 (a farm house) there, fivo qvnrfs of flies were caught 

 in one window in one day ! I do not believe that there 

 are two quarts in all my premises. But, then, I cause 

 all xcnsh and slops to be carried forty yards from the 

 house. 1 suffer no peelings or greens, or any rubbish, 

 to lie near the house. I suffer no fresh meat to remain 

 more than one day fresh in the house. I proscribe all 

 fish. Do not suffer a dog to enter the house. Keep all 

 pigs at a distance of sixty yards. And sweep all round 

 about once every week at least. 



22. Fine hot day. 



23. Fine hot day. Sowed Buck-xiheat in a piece of 

 very poor ground. 



24. Fine hot day. Harvest (for grain) nearly over. 

 The main part of the tcheat, &c. is put into Barns, 

 which are very large and commodious. Some they put 

 into small ric/is, or stacks, out in the fields, and there 

 they stand, without any thatchinr/, till they are wanted 

 to be taken in during the winter, and, sometimes they 

 remain out fur a whole year. Nothing can prove more 

 clearly than this fact, the great diirerence between this 

 climate and that of England, where, as every body 

 knows, such stacks would be mere heaps of muck by 

 January, if they were not, long and long before that 

 time, carried clean off the farm by the wind. The 

 crop is sometimes threshed out in the field by the feet 

 of horsed, as in the South of France. It is sometimes 

 carried into the bani's floor, M-here three or four horses, 

 or oxen, going abreast, trample out the grain as the 

 sheaves, or swarths, are brought in. And this explains 

 to us the humane precept of Moses, " not to muzzle the 

 " ox as he treadeth out the grain," which we country 

 people in England cannot make out. I used to be puz- 

 zled too, in the story of Ruth, to imagine how Boaz 



