eight months old. Since the great press of work notice vastly more
bees with ragged wings, work wears them out, wings give out first. 
Honey crowding much upon brood. Prefer very much the hives with
13 frames and 9 boxes. Found it very difficult to shake off the
Dzierzon Italians from the combs to make a nucleus. They
seem to me to adhere unusually, black bees easily shaken
off. As many of my weak stocks which I depended on
for rearing queens for sale promise to make good stocks, must
begin to make nuclei in small boxes. (23rd) Very hot. 
Bees accumulating wonderfully. To cage or take away a queen
last year was a benefit, this year unless hive has empty
comb given or frames to take away a queen is to leave
no room for brood. Black bees do not adhere to the
combs like Italians, when comb lifted out of the
hive for examination they often drop off, very easily
shaken off. The last ten days have put an entirely new
face upon my apiary. Many stocks which I designed to
use as nuclei for queen rearing will make good stocks. 
(24th) Very hot and drying up fast. Dzierzon stock make no
progress with many of their queen cells. Worms seem to dry
up, wither. Most of two lots have failed in this way. 
(25th) Very hot and dry, bees do not get honey quite so
fast. Tendency to encroach upon brood very great, fear
that stocks will be too weak in numbers. (27th) Made three
strong nuclei from bees rearing young queens, gave each [inserted: Dzierzon] worms
in best condition for rearing queens, each nucleus began
a large number, but in all the worms in a short time
seemed to dry up and the jelly was removed. The same
happened with a lot begun in a strong colony, and with
many of those begun in parent colony after the