Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther. [Thermometer] TUES. JULY 1, 1913 [Tuesday, July 1, 1913] Wea. [Weather]
86 [86 degrees]   Fine
Clear & oppressively hot with
strong S.W. [southwest] wind.
  Birds singing freely at morn [morning] & eve [evening].
  Spent most of forenoon
at Farm putting things
away for the summer
At 11 Gilbert [Robert Alexander Gilbert] took me to 
Ball's Hill in the Cadillac.
The men came down
after dinner. We spent 
most of P.M. spraying
some oaks & birches in the
opening on east side of 
Pine Hill & in watering
flower beds about cabin
with big sewer pump.
Walked to Pine Park at evening
Many big gypsy larvae in oaks
on Bensen's Knoll.
Concord (Ball's Hill & Farm)
Ther. [Thermometer] WED. JULY 2, 1913 [Wednesday, July 2, 1913] Wea. [Weather]
Fair
Partly cloudy, largely sunny. Very
hot, with light west wind, up to 3 P.M.
when the wind changed to N. [north] and 
cooled the air considerably.
  Spent forenoon at Ball's Hill
watering things with our big sewer
pump worked by Zeph & Pat.
Gave rhododendrons & flower beds
a heavy & much needed drenching.
Gilbert motored me to Farm at
1.30 P.M. Spent about 2 hours
there ploughing up central part
of strawberry bed now almost
out of bearing. Grosbeak & Wood
Pewee & one House Wren in full song.
Birds sang well at Ball's Hill
in early morn [morning]. Delightful choirs
of Veeries at eve (7-7.45). Visited
Davis Hill at 5. It is stripped.
Saw Green Heron. Bull Frogs passing
First water lilies