For Cabral (east of Delaque) and saw the old Estancia headquarters there is being preserved as of historic interest and is fully intact. After lunch drove to Estancia Pologno and met Charlie and Nora Mackinnon. He is the man in charge of all the Estancias of a former discussed English company, now Argentine. The Estancias include Alta Cura, Piloquinjen, Matien, and Delaque. In addition to numerous out- buildings, Pologno has a brick main house with galvanized red roof over shingles, an attic, and [illegible] in the attic. The house is surrounded by rows and rows of peppers, vegetable & flower gardens, Hawthorne trees, Cypress tree, and green lawns. A trap door near the kitchen lets into the attic which is literally sprinkled with bat droppings, and was quite warm. One mother + young were hanging in the open, others in cracks, especially between the double ridge pole and tin roof. The bats were active and scurried like mice along the ridge pole etc. We [illegible] caught some with long forceps, then stretched two nets outside the latter along a veranda where the residents reported seeing them fly frequently. They report that bats are in the attic winter and summer, that in winter they hang near the under the kitchen stove/pipes goes through the attic. They say winter temperatures go down to -16°C, snow up to a foot deep. Spring and even summer frosts are common. Apple bear only about once ever 7 years because of untimely frosts. Sidews rarely bloom for some reason. In the vegetable garden were strawberries (blooming), lettuce, Swiss chard, cabbage, carrot, peas, rhubarb, endive, currants, gooseberries, onions. [illegible] blooming, [illegible] - [illegible] finished. Evening calm & clear. Temp: 10 p.m. 9°C. Caught several bats about 10 p.m. including 1 mole [illegible] more in middle of night