Farmers do not care to persist in cutting their St. foin. The thermometer fluctuates between 29 & 29 & 1/2. The Rooks pursue & catch the chafers as they flie, whole woods of oaks are stripped bare by the chafers.
A pound of trufles were found by a trufle-hunter in my Brother’s grove.
Trufles begin to be found. Chafers still appear.
Wheat is very backward: hardly any ears appear. It is worthy of notice that on my clayey soil horses prefer the grass that grows on a sand-walk, tho’ shaded & dripped by a tall hedge, to that which springs from the natural ground in a sunny and open situation.
Poygala vulg. in flower. Mole-cricket churs.
Chafers abound. Sanicula europea in flower.
Fleas abound on the steep sand-banks where the bank-martins build.
Chafers much suppressed by the cold & the rain.
Many sorts of dragon-flies appear for the first time. Swifts devour the small dragon-flies as they first take their flight from out their aurelias, which are lodged on the weeds of ponds. Chafers are eaten by the turkey, the rook, & the house-sparrow.
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