(29th) 33 to 59 degrees. Hazy some. Many stocks have only food as I give it to them
day by day. Am arranging them as fast as I can so as to be able to set
combs of syrup next to them when it grows cooler. The eagerness to rob makes
it difficult to do much after the sun entices them out. (30th) 46 to [crossed out: illegible] 58 degrees. 
Heavy thunder last night with heavy showers. Cloudy part of the day. 
Have fed on comb placed on honey board. If weather becomes cold shall
remove honey boards, cover with pieces of old carpet or old clothes, and try corn cobs
soaked in syrup warmed or quite hot, if other plans fail. Prospects exceedingly
gloomy with regard to many if not most of my stocks, but shall do all that
can be done to save them. If I had broken up one half of my stocks last
fall after ceasing to feed and wintered none but those first rate
in stores, it would have been much better. (31st) 34 to 52 degrees. Cloudy with
rain from the east. (February 1st) 38 to 43 degrees. Cloudy with raw wind from west. 
Heavy, warm (52 degrees) showers in the night, with almost a gale of wind. Bees
take the syrup poured into comb on their honey board. Will do this when
cloudy and windy with thermometer at 40 degrees. If clear and still would take food
at a much lower temperature. The stocks entirely out of honey have accumulated
by this feeding several days supplies. (2) 30 to 43 degrees. Cloudy, some rain
snow flurries, high wind towards night. Fed bees on comb. 
(3) 20 to 31 degrees. Cloudy most of the day. A colony that has been
fed for some time, took honey put upon their feeding comb. 
A felon on the right thumb compels me to employ my
wife as amanuensis. (4) 32 to 44 degrees. Weather variable
with a little dash of rain. Bees fed when the sun shone, flew. 
Felon excessively painful, prevents me from preparing other
stocks for feeding. (5th) 32 to 38 degrees. (6th) 31 to 37 degrees. (7th) 27 to 32 degrees. 
(9th) 20 to 28 degrees. Able to do nothing for my bees. Fearful of
great losses. (10th) 10 to 26 degrees. Wind East. Clear. (11th) 16 to 48 degrees. 
Wind southerly, clear. Bees very active, fed with Col. McFarland's
assistance. (12th) 36 to 42 degrees. Raw northwest wind. James
returned, and fed the bees. (13th) 22 to 42 degrees. Bees fed, air raw. 
(14th) 33 to 44 degrees. (15th) 30 to 46 degrees. Wind east. (16th) 7 AM, 5 degrees. 9 AM, 1 1/2. 
2 PM, 5 degrees. 6 PM, 0 degrees. 9 PM, 1 degree. Powerful wind during the night. 
Piercing wind through the day. A little snow fell in the night. 
(17th) 7 AM, 6 degrees. 2 PM, 3 degrees. 9 PM, 2 degrees. Heavy wind during night. 
(18th) 7 AM, 6 degrees. 2 PM, 10 degrees. 9 PM 2 degrees. (19th) 7 AM 4 degrees below. 2 PM
22 degrees. 9 PM 18 degrees. (20th) 7 AM, 20 degrees. 2 PM, 38 degrees. 9 PM, 32 degrees. 
Bees were fed today, two found starved. (21st) 32 degrees at 7 AM. 42 degrees
at 2 and 36 degrees at 9 PM. (22nd) 38 degrees at 7 AM. 55 degrees at 2. 40 degrees at 9 PM. 
Beautiful day, bees very active.