4o3 March 1749. 



THE Penfylvanian dlfp was now in full blof- 

 fom. But neither this tree, nor thofe near a-kin 

 to jt, (hewed their leaves. 



AN old countryman aflerted, that he common- 

 ly fowed a buflicl of rye on an acre of ground, 

 and- got twenty buftiels in return ; but from a 

 buflicl of barley he got thirty bufhels. However 

 in that cafe the ground muft be well prepared. 

 Wheat returns about as much as rye. The foil 

 was a clay mixed with fand and mould. 



In the evening I returned * . 



March 28th. 1 FOUND a black beetle -j~ (Scara- 

 b&us) with a pentagonal oval Glypeus or (hield, 

 on the head a mort blunt horn, and a gibbous or 

 hump-backed Thorax, or Corfelet. This beetle 

 is one of the bigger fort here. I found here and 

 there holes in the hills, which were fo wide that 

 I cculd put my finger into them. On digging 

 them up I always found thefe beetles lying at the 

 bottom, about five inches under ground. Some- 

 times there were fliort whitim worms, about as 

 thick as one's finger, which lay with the beetles ; 

 and perhaps they were related to them. There 

 were likewife other infects in fuch holes, as a 

 black cricket (Gryllus campeftris), fpiders, earth- 

 beetles (Garabi), and others. This beetle had a 

 /cent exactly like the Trifolium melilotus ccerulea y 

 or the blue melilot. It was entirely covered with 

 oblong pale ticks (Acari). Its %t were as 



* From Nils Guftafson^ the old S-:v,Jc. 



f The beetle here defcribed, fcems ro be the Scara&ceus Caroli- 

 pus, -Linn. Syft. Nar.,p. $45, and of Drury I ihift rations of Nat. 

 Hi ft. tab. 35;. f. 2. It is common in NcvjYork t New Jerfey t Pen- 

 Jylvania, ?~laryland t and Carolina, F. 



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