Bright but cool. Bees given on frames to a stock which had a few days before killed
those given to them, after putting them in, rapped as hard as if I intended to drive
the bees into a super. When they began to roar stopped. Believe that this
method will almost always if not always answer. By the way may not
this principle answer perfectly to introduce queens? Set queens in when
they are all roaring and running. This thorough rapping frightens bees often
more than smoke. (28th) 27 to 40 degrees. Beautiful day, bees fly considerably. A small
stock with close fitting top that has been fed lately has much brood. Their honey
nearly all sealed over. One stock examined has none of its syrup sealed over. 
Can see no reason for this. May not leaving off the honey board have made
the bees less forward in sealing over their feed? It has certainly caused them
to keep their honey lower down in the frames. Pulled off part of the wing of a
queen, hurt her, two or more drops oozed out, like honey. Some queens are laying still. 
(29th) 32 to 61 degrees. Beautiful day. Bees fly vigorously and take syrup from feeder. Queen
whose wing was hurt is all right. The workers after all a pretty fair test of purity
of queens. Heard on the 27th that my two Italian queens from Dzierzon were
to be shipped October 17th. Hope that they will come safely, but do not expect to get any
handsomer or purer queens than I now have. The crop may benefit me even if Dzierzon
has in ten years effected no improvement. Am still very successful in uniting bees
by putting them into the hive to which I wish to add them on their comb, and then
rapping till the bees run and roar. (30th) 49 degrees. Rain last night and this AM. 
Am feeding a few stocks with very thick sugar syrup and shall see whether as late in the
season as this they can seal it up. (31st) 34 to 36 degrees. Heavy rain yesterday, not a bee
stirs. (Nov. 1st) 34 to 48 degrees. Pleasant, bees fly considerably. (Nov. 2nd) 40 to 70 degrees. Bees fly
briskly. Queens of colonies fed lay considerably. A queen that for six weeks did not
lay in a nucleus, lays freely in an old stock. Bees had a royal cell, sealed, her eggs
near it, she had once gnawed at it, but bees repaired it. Late queens where impregnation
in nuclei doubtful might be exchanged in fall, fed stocks to see whether they are
fertile. (3rd) 46 to 60 degrees. Beautiful day. (4th) 32 degrees. White frost. The warm days
have stimulated some queens to lay that had stopped even when no feed given. The
(20) queen of last year from which I have had so many this season keeping her in a
nucleus has laid largely since she was given September 17th to a full colony, has much
brood now. (l3th) 40 degrees. Interrupted by my head. One day mercury was 20 degrees. Last
few days pleasant. Dzierzon queen arrived yesterday. (See No. 55) Gave her today to a
colony that had queen removed ten days ago. Took out comb full of bees and
let her walk out of her cage on the comb. Well received. When queen put directly
on comb she does not feel strange, does not try to run to find comb and bees, such
an appearance of fright often causes bees to attack a queen. May not the strange
exchange of queens by [illegible] compound be explained by the fact that the queens were put
on comb full of bees lifted out of the hive, bees lifted out less disposed to attack.