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grass), the seed of which was brought from England some 

 years ago, and scattered in the fields ; both of which look 

 well, particularly the former. The Colonel has also a bunch 

 or two of good sainfoin in his garden. Some vessels of late 

 seen sailing up the Lake for the first time this season. 



June 10. The last has proved a very hot week ; but 

 a thunder storm last night has cooled the air : thermo 

 meter to-day 68, but has been 75 and upwards all the 

 week. Not quite enough rain for potatoes and corn, but 

 it has done all other things good: winter wheat looks well, 

 and is coming on the ear. Began cutting clover to-day ; 

 a fair crop, but sown rather too thin on the ground (only 

 two or three pounds per acre). The blossoms of the wild 

 grapes, growing about the fences, perfume the air with 

 their pleasant odour ; something like mignionette. Have 

 twenty cows calved, and milk plenty. 



June 18. Some rain and a cool week : thermometer 55 

 to 67. Finished mowing the clover ; some of it laid or 

 lodged about 25 cwt. per acre : got it up and stacked it ; 

 in which we mixed salt, as an experiment. Hay and 

 grain are carried together, on waggons or sleds (the latter 

 without wheels), which is properly called hauling. Waggon 

 wheels are strong and light, the tire being an entire ring, 

 which strengthens the wheel; the body (or box, as it is 

 called, and properly, as it is nothing but four boards 

 fastened together by hooks or pins, in a long square form) 

 can be put on or taken off at pleasure : a kind of frame, 

 not much unlike an open sheep crib, is put on for carrying. 

 Two young men, just arrived from England, came and 

 hired themselves to the Colonel at twenty shillings per 

 month, to live in the house and to work on the farm. 



June -24. Been plenty of rain of late. Yesterday a 

 thunder storm hung nearly the whole day in one position, 

 about two miles off; it thundered and rained all the time; 

 yet no rain with us. 



July 1. The weather fine and temperate, with little 

 rain. Fruit and vegetables ripen well, and are plentiful. 

 As the month advanced, some hot days in succession, 

 during which the harvest was got in ; the Timothy grass 

 pretty good, but the Indian, or wild grass of the pea 

 species, a poor crop to mow. In foddering cattle in winter 

 no hay knives are used, generally ; but the top of the 

 stack thrown off until all used; being but little or no rain 



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