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the hottest : thermometer at noon 82, when a short but 

 sharp thunder gust came on, and the thermometer sunk 

 immediately. Cut spring wheat and housed it j not good, 

 too thick on the ground two bushels and a half per acre 

 sown. I believe the Talavera wheat would be an excellent 

 spring wheat, as it generally answers best in warm seasons 

 in England. Thousands of long large flies, similar to the 

 English dragon fly, but a little smaller, are flying about 

 the fields ; they are called musquito hawks, on account of 

 their killing and living on those insects. 



August 12. Very hot, and no wind: thermometer 83 ; 

 two hot days preceding. At the beginning of the week, 

 the thermometer was at 52 only. Hooked and stacked the 

 peas ; those growing on the bottoms or flats, a very heavy 

 crop, some of the straw from six to nine feet long, and well 

 podded. Cutting a second crop of clover, about 23 cwt. 

 per acre j it would have been an excellent crop for seed, 

 it was so well headed. Millions of flies (called May flies 

 in England, but here June flies) along the lake shore, and 

 to half a mile distance, smothering every thing, they are so 

 numerous : it is said they only live one day, when they 

 settle on something in the evening and die ; the next 

 morning a young one bursts out of the old one s skin. 



August 19. It has been a hot week : thermometer 

 ranging from 72 to 85 5 no rain, but showers flying about. 

 Stacked the second crop of clover. Clover only wants 

 once turning in the swath, if the crop is large, to make into 

 hay ; and if light, and grass, none at all, only laying a day 

 or two, and then got together into rows and stacked. The 

 beavers have eat down several small trees, some inches 

 diameter, in the last year, along the side of the Cole Creek: 

 they are a small sort, and but few of them left now. 



August 26. From this date to the second week in Sep 

 tember was remarkably fine weather, the thermometer 

 ranging between 58 and 76, and all agricultural business 

 went on as well as could be desired. Near the creeks and 

 woody swamps the cattle are annoyed by large flies, which 

 sting them so severely as to draw blood. Pigeons again 

 made their appearance in large flocks, as also wild turkeys ; 

 partridges, larger than the English breed, and quails, less 

 than those of Europe, are also numerous. The Canadian 

 farmers, in general, never thatch their grain ; all kinds are 

 tied up into sheaves, and made into small stacks, with the 



