seemed to lay as freely as other Italian queens, her colony has
gathered a very large supply for the number of bees, have never
used any smoke and the bees have never once been irritable. 
Shall put the queen into a nucleus next week to rear queens. 
(17th) At 4 PM on the 13th removed queen and bees for a nucleus from (No. 2) a
fair stock. At 9 AM today found nine queen cells, 4 of them sealed over and of
good size, bees exhibited but little commotion after her removal. (20th) The
last week extraordinary for honey. White clover abundant and very
sweet. [inserted: Very] moderate stocks have more than the best got last season. 
Removed an Italian queen from strong stock, gave them one just
fertile, put on comb outside, pinned her fast and I removed
her, had just cut her wing and she may have been some frightened. 
Queen given to nucleus on the 13th (see 17th) though much pressed for
comb to lay in will not lay in cells too near the edge of new comb. 
Made a nucleus for my Dzierzon queen at 8 1/2 this AM, at 9 1/2
queen was laying quite freely. At 4 1/2 PM yesterday this queen
had laid a number of eggs in a new drone comb. She was on
it when I opened the hive. Shall now be able to see how long
drones require to mature from the egg, which I did not test
last year. (21st) Had a beautiful shower yesterday PM from the northeast. 
This month wind has been from the north and southeast, two thirds or more of
the time. Today splendid for honey, prospect that very moderate
stocks will gather more than the largest did last year. Have
removed queens from three large stocks, scarcely noticed it by any
commotion. Went very soon to rearing queens. Shall remove a
queen from black bees to test my opinion that they show much
more activity. A nucleus made from full blood Italians and black
bees about half and half. The black bees show nearly all the
activity when opened. Shall test this further. Have a colony
which last fall had a drone laying queen given to it. Removed
her this spring after she had layed a number of drone eggs. Have
given them a caged queen, to see how long they will live. 
Could not have been born later than October, are now nearly