some drone cells away from the brood and near the outside frame found drone
eggs, think them to be laid by fertile worker. When old queen was caged
they put off very late rearing queens, had many very small queen cells and no
doubt fertile workers. No. (2) to which I gave brood in drone and worker cells is
building queen cells in the drone comb. This is much more common than I ever supposed. 
I had given them a just hatched queen. In breeding queens in hot weather, use
strong nuclei, give small pieces of corner brood. Try to start five or six in the
same day, in ten days put them all in one box called nursery nucleus. 
Examine from time to time and remove the hatched queens. At night have
express boxes to put each comb into, better one box with six divisions, wire
cloth mainly for the divisions, will keep each other warm. Avoid cutting
out queen cells as much as possible. In putting infertile queens in cages on the
hive where they hatch some allowed to starve while of those fed some cages are much
more covered with bees than others. Why? Notice if it is the oldest, or if I can see
any reason for this. Am disposed to attribute so many poorly colored queens in former
seasons to deficiency in the nuclei of bee bread. Queens taken out of cells before
they were quite ready to hatch will go for a long time without food. Try now to
get drones from my Dzierzon queen impregnated by my drones, also to
get drones from the original Dzierzon queen, so that I can shut up the
other drones on certain days and thus get a few Dzierzon queens full
blood. In case I prefer the Dzierzon stock to the cross with mine I can
then have it without another importation. (11th) Very beautiful queens hatching. 
Found several young unfertile queens dead in their cages, put several in [inserted: large cages] with
comb and honey, in an hour found ants making free with the honey, small red
ants. Shall use back ventilators for introducing queens, have put a few workers
in the cages with young queens, shall change them from time to time and give them
honey. Colony that yesterday was building drone queen cells has stopped work on
them, bees have opened several drone queen cells, much jelly at the base. A
hive with 2nd story into which full comb had been lifted examined, very strong in
bees and brood, drone larvae and eggs. Found a hatched queen on a queen cell
had a small hole on its side, not near so large as those I often make, removed queen,
in an hour the bees had the hole almost large enough to drag her out, looks as though the
queen hurt her, often when queen makes large hole bees close it up. (12th) 93 degrees. 
Showers all around us, some very near. A queen cell torn open all the cocoon off
and [crossed out: worker] [inserted: queen] almost ready to fall out sealed over in a very short time by the bees, any
damage repaired that does not hurt the worm. Very many young queens die in
cages, more with workers put in than without. Better to distribute the [illegible]
cells that can be safely cut out from the [illegible] queen nurseries.