[crossed out: 25th] September 25th, 1863. 38 degrees. 26th 34 degrees. 27th 34 degrees. Weather clear,
heavy frosts, quite dry. No bee bread or honey seen to be gathered. 
28th 42 to 72 degrees. Clear, dry. Saw bees on wild aster in the woods
of college campus, just beginning to blossom. Nuclei eat up most of the
eggs when queen removed, a number of queens just found crippled. Many drones
from impure drone laying queens have been flying. When noticed stopped
them in the hive. Some colonies fed quite liberally do not show the
effects of it as I hoped, seem to have but little. Colony with the drones
building queen cells again, pulling some at the drones. (29th) 42 to 72 degrees. Hot, dry,
smoky. Saw evidence of impregnation in a queen 16 days old. (30th) 44 to 70 Hot, dry,
smoky. October 1st, 54 degrees. Wind east, began to rain before daybreak. 7 PM. 
Has rained steadily all day, a glorious rain for pastures, wheat, white clover, which
from the timely rains is looking well, not almost burnt up as last year. 
Continue to hear the most unfavorable accounts of the condition of bees from
various parts of the country, and fear a terrible destruction the coming winter. 
Shall double up any weak colonies, and do all I can to winter my
stocks in good condition. (2nd) [inserted: 54 to 60 degrees] A pleasant clear up, bees bringing in bee
bread. Wild asters very abundant in the woods of college campus. If the
weather is favorable they may get considerable honey. Queens that appear to
be impregnated in nuclei do not lay. (3rd) 40 to 60 degrees. Heavy fog. Bees
work on the asters. (4th) Very raw, windy, cloudy, not a bee stirring. (5th) 36 to 42 degrees. 
Raw, windy, not a bee stirring. A beautiful queen from Cary + a November 1863 Colerain queen. 
(6th) 42 to 54 degrees. Bees get a little bee bread, too cold and windy. A fertile queen
from Colerain that had been over a week in a strong nucleus refused to lay, but
when given to a strong stock laid freely. Queens reared lately in full stock
lay, but none for some time in nuclei. (7th) 40 to 44 degrees. A cold rain last
night and this AM. Continue to get very unfavorable accounts of the bee season. 
(8th) 38 to 56 degrees. Sun shone some, bees get a little bee bread. A queen in a strong
nucleus hatched September 12, just beginning to lay, her sister of same age in a
full stock laid a week ago. Have a good number of drones in one colony. 
Gave it a beautiful infertile queen. Bees sealing over sugar syrup. Shall try a
colony with sorghum molasses and one or two with half sorghum and half sugar syrup
mixed. (9th) 42 to 58 degrees. Bees get some bee bread and a very little honey from aster. 
Find more late bred queens impure. The stocks pretty well off for bees, and a
little more honey will carry them through till March. The late feeding has
been inestimable in securing late bred bees as well as winter stores. To have delayed
feeding till this time would have been ruinous to many of the stocks. They
would have been too light in bees to be worth much. Put bees, comb, honey from
a strong stock to a weak one. Why not use this method for adding the
weak stocks to others. From my experience in making swarms by the