CLIMATE, SEASONS, EfC. 



1817. 



July 10. very little inconvenient affair. Shoes, trowsers, 

 shirt and hat. No plague of dressing and un 

 dressing ! 



11. Fine hot day in the morning, but began to 

 grow dark in the afternoon. A sort of haze 

 came over. 



12. Very hot day. The common black cherries, the 

 little red honey cherries, all ripe now, and falling 

 and rotting by the thousands of pounds weight. 

 But, this place which I rent is remarkable for 

 abundance of cherries. Some early peas, sown in 

 the second week in June, fit for the table. This is 

 thirty days from the time of sowing. No flies yet ! 

 No musquitoes ! 



13. Hot and heavy, like the pleading of a quarter- 

 sessions lawyer. No breeze to-day, which is rarely 

 the case. 



14. Fine day. The Indian corn four feet high. 



15. Fine day. We eat turnips sown on the second of 

 June. Early cabbages (a gift) sown in May. 



1 6. Fine hot day. Fine young onions, sown on the 

 8th of June. 



17. Fine hot day. Harvest of wheat, rye, oats and 

 barley, half done. But, indeed, what is it to do 

 when the weather does so much ! 



1 8. Fine hot day. 



19. Rain all day. 



20. Fine hot day, and some wind. All dry again as 

 completely as if it had not rained for a year. 



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

 Jew. Not more than in England. My son John, 

 who has just returned from Pennyslvania, says 

 they are as great torments there as ever. At a 

 friend s house (a farm house) there, two quarts of 

 files 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 wash and slops to 

 be carried forty yards from the house. I 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. Sozved Buck-wheat in a piece of very 

 poor ground. 



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



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