(23) 36 to 62 degrees. (24) 36 to 46 degrees. (25) 36 to 48 degrees. Very windy. 
(26) 26 to 44 degrees. Clear. 
May 18th. From a [inserted: Italian] weak stock caged queen, and put a black
queen at once on comb taken [inserted: out] from hive. Well received. A few hours
later found her laying while their own queen (in cage) covered with
bees. Bees of black colony very much agitated from loss of queen,
gave them in a few hours the Italian queen on comb removed
from hive, well received, a few hours later all right. 
Am encouraged to hope that this is a good way of giving queens. 
Apple trees have blossomed well and bees have got considerable
honey from them. Most of the stocks were very weak. Dzierzon
workers very handsome. (26th) Locust considerably in blossom. (27th)
Quite full but yields little honey. 28th (56 degrees) Very cool, bees
get little, have had to feed the weak colonies this week. 
Never knew a season when bees got so little honey. 
(June 8th) Locusts yielded very little, bees as yet have very little
sealed honey. Examined a stock into which early in spring a
small stock, weak, brood too much scattered for Italian queen. 
Found two queens. Think both of them last year's queens. One
may be a young one. Prospect for honey this season thus far poorer
than last year. From the number of combs with brood no doubt two
queens wintered in that hive, one of the old ones was killed and
a young one reared from her brood, as she was pure. Old queen
had wings clipped and must have been put in by mistake
last fall when colony strengthened, she was impure. June 16th. 
Much of this month wind has been northeast, very dry and cool. The
last few days bees have gathered very well from clover, boxes have
now more honey than last season at same time. The stocks
with pure queens have made better progress than those
with impure. The Dzierzon queen has not