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March 18th, 1852. Let outside be wood dovetailed, a strap fastened,
inside glass, space between glass and wood, front and sides filled
with charcoal, or good nonconductor, back double glass to give a view. 
Glass for a lining better and cheaper than anything else. 
March 20. Bottom board might have glass on the inside, too cold? Moisture freezes?
I attach very great importance to the use of glass as an inside lining,
it enables me to attain all the advantage of double glass, (seeing excepted) and
other additional important advantages. Hive needs no outside cover, may be
made stronger, lighter, simpler, cheaper, more compact, the doubled space
may be permanently filled, with the very best nonconductor, and the hive made
warmer. The corners are all to be filled with putty, and thus the smallest
possible chance is given to the bee moth. The bottom is to be thoroughly painted
with the metallic paint, which gives it no chance there. The top of the hive
in the cold weather is filled with straw etc. , the back may have a little cotton
or something of the kind between the glass and the wood cover in the cold weather. The
hive is to stand over a dark space etc. It will thus be able to defy all
the attacks of cold, or heat. [inserted: 29th] [illegible] part hinged so that when the hive is all
locked it may be unhinged, but not when locked, cover of the back hinged. 
Top locks in this. Frame projects up so as to form a rabbet. Sides and
top are beveled, sides on the bottom board rabbeted, no joints left exposed. 
This pleases me better than anything yet. Model for the patent office ought to be
made in this way. [illegible] should describe this hive, compact, simple, 
durable, neat, etc. 
its honey when made (III), had a very large number of sealed and unsealed queen cells. Found 25
sealed queens in one large stock deprived of its queen. (8th) Hot, close, muggy. Put two worthless queens into
a cage fought and one wounded at once. Grasshoppers have eaten heads of red clover badly. A queen
hatched from colony of 24th, just 15 days after queen laid any eggs, and two hours over. 
In two full colonies a queen hatched in three or four hours before full ten days after the
brood was given. (Their previous queen cells had been cut out. ) Drones in some hives very plenty. 
I feed every night a tumbler of syrup to encourage some stocks to keep and breed drones. 
(9th) 70 to 82 degrees. Some breeze. (10th) 70 degrees. Have had many queens hatch yesterday and today. From
a pure queen, some good, some beautiful, one splendid, some poor, all reared in full stock,
and all good size. Bees unusually disposed to seal up cell of hatched queen, could only tell that