Found another queen just laying on drone comb. Have now a good opportunity of
testing time of drones from three or four layings. In drone edge cells where a
fertile worker has laid several in a number of cells, find drone larvae in cells where
some eggs have either dried up or the worms neglected by the bees. Drone queen cells of
very common occurrence. (27th) 56 to 72 degrees. Windy, with clouds, much cooler. A colony which
has not been fed getting rid of its drones. Must feed a little more generously colonies with
drones and drone brood. Get queens very easily by driving into upper cover. This a very
good way with half bloods. If a colony has [inserted: young] queen that has made as wide a spread
of brood ready as she is inclined to, and she is removed before they hatch and another given
to be fertile about when they hatch, little loss of bees and no more [inserted: excess of] pollen than if she
had remained. Saw what I suppose to be a fertile worker hatch, a piece of
corner [inserted: brood] comb which had many queen cells taken from a strong queenless stock, had a
number of workers capped and five or six fertile workers. Tried all the caps and
found about half and half between queen and under caps for toughness, they are easily
depressed, flabby, fertile workers hatch later than queens but probably earlier than workers. 
This worker was noticed by bees very much as a just hatched queen often is. I clipped her
wings and put her in a queenless colony, shall get a nucleus of perfectly black bees and
give her to them so that I can easily recognize her. Find a colony large with plenty of brood, etc. 
whose queen was removed has taken no steps to rear another. They allowed an unfertile caged queen
a week old to die in her cage. Found a queen cell with young worm and much jelly in
stock with original Dzierzon queen, have they any thought of swarming or are they meaning
to supplant her as too old. Gave it upside down to a colony just deprived of its queen,
its edge was ragged, in two hours they had not repaired edge, then put it in natural
position. Shall try whether they will enlarge, etc. queen cells in any but a vertical
position. In several instances just hatched queens given to stocks just deprived of queens
have disappeared. To be done when queens are plenty. (28th) 58 to 72 degrees. (29th) 58 to 74 degrees. 
Some colonies get considerable from buckwheat, very considerable honey from
pollen a very bright yellow. A very strong colony in 13 frame hive
has got rid of its queen three summers old, building comb, several strong
colonies have done this. Saw a fertile queen from Dzierzon queen expel all Parsons
drone lighter colored than any I have ever seen before. Better plan to have always
plenty of smoke, use at discretion. To drum bees use a cushioned mallet so as not to dent
the hive. Very much easier to drum bees into the cover of my hive than to drum them
out of old box, find no trouble in seeing queen in this way. Might not corn
cobs be ground up with some straw or tow, [inserted: etc.] so as to form suitable mats for lining
the inside of hives. If a good material could be made in this way it might be
patented and sold by the sheet or ream, etc. Must consult with a practical
paper maker. (30th) 48 to 68 degrees. Rather too cool for honey, bees not inclined to rear so many
queen cells as when weather was hotter. Notice continually how very much young Italian stock
adhere to comb, do not fall off, can scarcely be shaken off. Not only is the opposite trait in
black bees very annoying but by falling off many are lost in the grass. The lightest
colored queen I think I have ever seen, from a Dzierzon mother impregnated by a Parsons