Concord (Farm & Ball's Hill)
Ther [Thermometer] Wednesday, June 3, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Fair
Forenoon sunny; afternoon cloudy
with threatening thunderheads & a 
few rain drops.
  Black-poll Warbler [in full song] near barn, 8 A.M.
Quail whistling bob-white in front
of house at 6 A.M. & again 7-7.20
He was on wall bounding one our door yard
& his voice rang through house.
Later in day I heard him far
away towards the north-west.
A wandering bird, no doubt, looking
for a mate. It is now many
years since any Quail have bred
in this neighborhood.
  Spent most of day spraying
with Zeph's help in Pulpit Rock
woods & Birch Field. Gypsies
wilting by hundreds there although
still very small. Sprayed spruces &
balsams very carefully against [?].
The Melvins & Robbins visited me
in late P.M. bringing Violet plants
and a house plant Henry Purdie liked.
Duren spraying all day on Blakeman
Ridge by river. I went there to see
him after breakfast.
Concord (Farm)
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, June 4, 1914 Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Cloudy with fine rain falling almost
ceaselessly. It began about 10 P.M. last
evening & soaked deep into the ground
to-day. Thereby alleviating what was
becoming a serious drought. Light S.E. [southeast]
wind in A.M., living gale from S.W. [southwest]
in P.M., lashing trees to & fro & sending
sheets of rain althwart [athwart] the landscape.
  Spent entire day working with
George in flower garden. He is very
good at it. We dug up lots of
weeds and transplanted many 
things. It was a treat to be
so long in the midst of all the
irises, now in the fullest perfection
of their glorious bloom. I care more
for them than for any other garden
flowers. The Caucasian poppies are
past their prime & the single white
May roses almost gone.
Not a favorable day for birds.
They sang but little. Heard a
Blackburnian in elm by house.