Concord. April 14, 1904
  Partly cloudy with several furious snow squalls
whitening the ground. Cold with harsh N.W. [northwest] wind.
Surface of ground frozen this morning.
  Spent day on farm. All three men went
to Everett Masons back pasture & two of them
remained there all day digging barberry bushes
of which Hansen brought back four wagon loads.
We merely "heeled" them in, but they will be planted
to-morrow.
  At evening rambled through the Barrett woods.
I went with Karl Ellison to Birch Id. [Birch Island] woods in
A.M. to cut chestnuts for a gate. Birds
silent & few seen. Even the Robins did not sing.