Concord - Bedford
Ther [Thermometer] Thursday, April 26, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Dull
Early morn sunny. Rest of day dark
cloudy with intensely chill N.E. [northeast]
wind. Scattered snow-flakes falling
at 8 A.M. and light rain after 4 P.M.
  Motored to Bedford at 8.45, meeting
John Brown there by appointment. He
brought an experienced tree digger to help
get a lot of white cedars for me.
After seeing their owner, Mr. Proctor, we
dug about 100 of them from 2 to 8 ft. [feet]
tall. They are growing by thousands, big &
little, near a brook meadow at edge of
Bedford swamp but in what was once
low lying farm land and is so still just
outside the confines of the colony. Proctor
has been saving them for me but will
extirpate all of them this year for the
land they occupy is rich, deep loam.
Brown set out those we took, in P.M.
when I worked with Burbank transplanting
fall-bearing strawberry plants.
  Few birds seen or heard. The chill air
must have silenced most of them.
Sold two hogs weighing about 200 lbs [pounds]
each, for $70. to Davis of Concord.

Concord - Bedford
Ther [Thermometer] Friday, April 27, 1917 Wea [Weather]
Stormy
Raining, sleeting, at times snowing, through
forenoon. Very heavy rain last night. Afternoon
cloudy with occasional gleams of wan sunshine.
Light easterly wind having icy chill.
Grass intensely green & growing fast.
Red maples & elms in full bloom.
first 'dandelion greens" served to-day.
  First noted. Cedar bird - a lone, dull-
plumaged one having no wax on wings &
but little yellow on tail. It spent fully an
hour in barberry bush, front of house, gleaning
only a few neglected berries therefrom.
  Local birds mostly silent & not many seen.
Flock of 20+ Juncos flushed in millet.
Crows very numerous, noisy & bold, coming
close about buildings - a dozen or more of
them presumably resident ones. Grouse 
drumming in Run all day. [male] Marsh Hawk 
flying over it at 4 P.M.
  Spent part of forenoon & all afternoon
setting out the strawberry plants 10 kinds in
all 8 of which came from Allen [W.F. Alllen] at
Saulsbury. Md [Salisbury, Maryland] early this month.