cells and these often not destroyed when queen given hatched. When
one of their own raising hatches she is allowed to kill the others. 
(14th) Wind east, not so hot, no rain yet. Put a queen just hatched into cage, let her
walk out on comb, at once she hid herself in a large cell, showing only the tip of
her abdomen. Drones are being killed today. (15th) Very hot, very dry. 
Removed and caged six sealed queens and put in and over hives to see whether they
will hatch. In carrying a frame with queen on a short distance she dropped
off, could not find her, shook [inserted: her] bees upon the path I carried her, they
soon found her. Have missed a number of hatched queens from small nuclei,
have lost none yet from even moderate stocks in large hives. (16th) Very hot, fearfully
dry. In one nucleus found four drones sealed over like queens. In a large stock
deprived of its queen found one, both had abundance of normal queen cells. A
number of stocks are killing off their drones. The power of just hatched Italian bees
to adhere to the combs very much greater than that of Italians. In half-bloods those showing the
most Italian marks adhere much better than the dark ones. The queen whose abdomen
was so severely compressed has laid no eggs since. When honey abundant queens prefer to
lay in combs new and unfinished. When honey scarce they prefer old combs to those
whose cells have not their proper depth, [illegible] the bees. (17th) Fearfully dry, hot,
drones are being slaughtered fast. (18th) In several colonies queens hatched
from queen cell given, and where the bees had made other queen cells I miss
the first hatched queen. In others find her and these queen cells unhurt. When the
bees have built all the queen cells unless they mean to swarm they always
allow the first hatched queen to destroy the other cells. Do the queens sting
the unhatched queens or merely open their cells. In several instances after the cells
have been opened I have taken all the unhatched queens unhurt. I have now had quite
a number of queens hatch in the cages, and in hot weather believe that the will hatch as well
as if left to the bees. So many more queens can be reared in this way that it gives us a
much wider choice for handsome young queens. I put the cages in the slots in my honey board
and the no. of hive queen cells were taken from. Had a very small and meanly colored queen
from my Dzierzon queen, many of the queens from her have been reared under unfavorable circumstances
and are poorly colored and small, quite small queens are generally poorly colored. 
Cages in which queens hatch must be often examined, bees cannot be depended on to feed them. When a
queen is quite young can she test. Will they feed her usually unless she can. Have had
them drag off and fly away with just hatched queen given them, not offer to sting. 
New plan for getting rid of bees from honey boxes. Place them in a barrel covered
over as Quinby directs with a sheet. When most have left put on a nucleus