A day of misfortunes. A large colony from which I removed queen
had 20 sealed queens, the nucleus which I made for her after
removing her had 19 cells. It seems to me that pure Italian bees
in small nuclei rear more queens than black bees. (12th) Wind east, cooler,
awfully dry. Yesterday cut out nearly hatched queen and fed in queen
cage and put in nucleus, hatched today. If this plan usually
successful (weather must be hot) a good way to economize queen
cells. Removed a just hatching queen, shall feed her and keep
her from bees until she is about ready to be impregnated, then
after impregnation again remove her, keep her say 4 days and
see if she will lay at once. Object to ascertain whether the
feed given by bees develops the eggs, believe that it does, by
removing her just hatched she will learn to be content without
presence of bees and to feed well on pure honey. Removed pure
queen from 104. This stock had a pure queen, wing clipped, last fall, added
bees and honey from a stock broken up, and must have put in it impure
queen with wing clipped also (See June 8th) The presence of a young queen
with wing unclipped and cell with lid off shows that she was born there,
being pure, as seen from her progeny, proves that she came from the pure queen. 
These facts and the scattered brood, demonstrate that the two queens lived in
the same hive until late in the spring. Tested queen hurt yesterday appears
all right today. She was flattened out like a pancake, lower part of her
abdomen. Will she like Berlepsch's queen become a drone-layer? (13th)
Found a beautiful queen with shriveled wings. On the 7th examined a colony with
old queen, she had not been very fertile, was crossed with black drone, found
an infertile, mean young queen, removed her and gave sealed queen. Today
found sealed cell destroyed, and found old queen, she had laid considerably
since removal of young queen, but nothing like a queen in her prime. It is
evident then that queens are changed by supplanting. Last two days cooler wind
east, very dry, bees get next to nothing, a moderate nucleus sealed 19 queen
cells. Eleven on one small frame. More than most large colonies rear. A very
good stock has a queen which all the season has refused to lay any drone eggs,
every opportunity given. Another examined today has queen still laying more
eggs. Shall feed to get late drones. Nearly every colony to which a
sealed queen cell is given when old queen is removed makes other queen