MEMORANDA
March 22 First Butterflies seen,
the big, ragged-winged, orange brown
kind (not Antiopa)
March 30 First Wood Frogs
April 7 [First] Hylas peeping
[April] 8 [First] Speckled Tortoise
[April] 11 [First] Leopard Frog (only one)
[April] 12 [First Leopard Frog] in full cry.
[April 12] Painted Tortoises (many)
[April 12] Hepatica in bloom.
[April] 14 Full chorus Hylas.
[April] 28 First Toad trilling
[April 28] Forsythia & Mertensia bloom
[April 28] Horse Chestnut in leaf
[April] 30 Lindens & Maples [in leaf]
[April 30] First Cherry blossoms
May 4 - 3 Bats in shed
[May] 6 First Shad bush blossoms
[May] 8 Shad bush in full bloom
May 8 First gypsy moths hatched, First apple blossoms
[May] 9 [First] Tree Toad calling
[May] 8 several Snapping Turtles in river 
[May] 11 First mosquitos trying to bite
[May] 12 Apple blossoms falling. (Intense heat)
[May 12] General hatching of gypsy moths
[May 12] First Fowler's Toads squawking
with them a few Garden [Toads] trilling
[May] [13] First trump of a Bull Frog (7 P.M.)
[May 13] Blueberry bushes in full bloom 
[May] [16] Mosquitoes rather troublesome at eve [evening]
[May 16] First June Bug batting at window.
[May 16] Choke berry in bloom
[May 16] Began spraying in orchard & grove.
[May] 17 sprayed south end Berry Pasture, both
sides road to Ritchie place & east slope of
one hill below barn & orchard & our lane
[May] 23 Reunion D.C.F. [Daniel Chester French], R.H.D. [Richard Henry Dana] & W.B. [William Brewster].
[May] 24 Town sprayer passes.
[May] 23 Kicker heard off Ball's Hill.
[May] 25 Woods in nearly full leaf.
[May] 26 Fast Dragon Flies in swarms - over Ball's Hill.