all confident that the young queen of colony that expelled them is fertile. Found
them all gone in the two drone laying colonies, queen of one of these had defective
wings, very large, had laid freely, and some few worms still. Another drone
laying queen that layed very sparingly was quite slender, like an infertile
queen. Moved bees as before described, saw no bad results. Hope
to have in good or fair condition for wintering 95 of my 110 stocks. 
(19th) 52 to 74 degrees. Bees very much in flight. (18th) 50 to 54 degrees. A good shower last night. 
Cooler, very windy. (19th) 32 to 54 degrees. Heavy frost. Examination of bees and preparation for
winter continued. In the last few days, the syrup fed has been very [crossed out: illegible]
largely sealed over. A very think syrup fed to a good colony sealed over almost at
once. Such syrup should be fed when season is so far advanced. As the bees have
got no late honey of any account from flowers, trees, etc. , I do not think that they
will suffer so much from dysentery as last season when they got so much from
a late honey dew on the beech leaves. Sorghum [illegible] do not kill many bees. 
A colony had very much brood for the season and plenty of eggs (See No. 26). The
queen had been caged July 7th and forgotten till Sept 12th. The bees had not reared
another. The hive was much better off for honey than the average and the
queen having rested has had a very large number of bees. In such a poor
season as this to have stopped breeding for two months would have been a very good
thing for most of the hives. Stocks from which the queens were taken early to breed
in nuclei were much the better for being without a queen for a while. Queens
kept during the summer in nuclei [inserted: and then put in separate large stocks] have much more brood now than those
kept in the larger stocks all the season. Many colonies have stopped breeding, others
still have eggs, no general rule. Several colonies have killed bees added
to them. Shall now try oil of anise and setting in on frames. (20th) 32 degrees. 
Pleasant. (21st) 30 degrees. Pleasant. (22nd) 30 degrees. Bees fly but little. Have broken up
and added bees without any being killed, by rapping on the hive to which they
are given so as to set the bees humming and running. When the bees are added
on a cool day very few go back. I believe that setting them in the hive to
which they are to be given on the combs, or shaking them in and rapping, will be
a perfectly successful way of uniting colonies. A queen born in a nucleus did not
lay two weeks after she was impregnated. Put into a full stock layed 5 weeks after her
birth. A strong colony queenless took and sealed feed very actively (23rd) 38 to 36 degrees. Rain
last night, essence of rawness today. Found in a large 13 frame stock the entrance inside
contracted by a very large mass of bee bread, the whole very similar to that described by Huber. 
(24th) 25 to 40 degrees. Ground hard frozen. (25th) 34 to 46 degrees. (26th) 32 degrees. Very raw east 
wind. A queen over a month old taken from a nucleus in which she would not
lay and put in a full stock soon began to lay even in this cold weather. Queen (21st)
laying when five weeks old or more was taken and put in a moderate nucleus caged
five days, found laying two days after liberated. Queen of same litter in a strong stock
laying in cells from which workers have just hatched. No general absolute rule can
be laid down about queens laying late in the fall. (27th) 35 to 46 degrees.