Dzierzon queen was put in a nucleus, although they have
a number which are all right, and four in another nucleus
are all right. Is not this queen defective in some way. 
She does not lay freely. Saw a queen hatching, she dodged
back and exhibited a timidity very unlike a hatching worker. 
Weather very hot and dry, rains passed around us yesterday, clover fast
drying up. PM, changed to cool, wind northeast strong. sky very smoky,
bees did but little this PM. (28th) Cool, bees get but little, work
in the boxes suspended. (29th) A moderate shower this AM,
had a swarm, wings of queen clipped, found her on the ground,
removed parent hive, put empty one with comb in place, caged
queen, bees went in, put another caged queen in the hive with
swarm, put swarming queen successively into nuclei boxes and
shook out bees of swarm to make nuclei, made 9. Like this
plan much. Gave a portion of drone comb to a strong nucleus
hoping the [crossed out: queen] bees would build drone comb and queen lay in
it, they continued it worker comb, but found queen on it having
laid in the drone cells and new worker cells. 7AM. Hope
to get from this the exact date of drone development. Bees very
prone to destroy drone eggs, this has hitherto prevented me
from deciding this point. Bees have gathered but very little today. 
(30th) Excessively hot, showers went round, white clover nearly
dried up. Notice in many ways the little regard bees pay to
drone eggs. If honey fails and on the same comb are drone and worker
eggs the [crossed out: latter] [inserted: former] disappear, the latter are cared for, same when honey
very plenty. Have had many eggs laid in drone cells in two
nuclei but all have disappeared except those in the drone and
worker comb (See 29th) July 1st. Very windy, but bees work
much better. Made a number of nuclei. Stocks will not
work in boxes unless the bees are crowded below. From bees
working till dusk judge the Linden is in blossom. 
Weather so windy queens slow in getting impregnated.