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[[margin]] April 14. [[/margin]] Rain all night:  Poured all day.  Everything very wet  Floors wet.  Impossible to do any outdoor work.  I laid the trees in holes where they belong.  [[margin]] [[circle with a dot in center]] [[/margin]]
[[margin]] April 15. [[/margin]] Weather clears slowly.  Men of Yonkers Nurseries here planting all remaining trees and Rhodondendrons.  Great improvement do garden.  Were thru at 6 P.M
In the afternoon, sun broke out.  Jim & Joe fetched 4 small hemlock trees on ravine near Railroad below Snug Rock.  Will they grow?  I enjoyed planting immensely but got frequently interrupted.  At noon Mr. [[Buche?]] came here
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to give verbal report of experiments with [[underlined]] Bakelite-graphite bushings [[/underlined]].  The main defect seems to be heating but this may be due to several causes, principally lack of smooth boring; [[strikethrough]]ano[[/strikethrough]] proper pressed molding may do away with this.  De Stanza's men laying tiles in front porch.  In afternoon [[underlined]] Mr. Siemon [[/underlined]] of [[underlined]] Bridgeport [[/underlined]] Conn. met me here by appointment.  Says employs 200 men for ^[[insertion]] electric [[/insertion]] insulating materials.  wants to use Bakelite.  Promised him to send him directions for experimental work.  Then Thurlow will go there so as to train their people  showed him my samples and