(16th) 44 to 70 degrees. Beautiful day, bees work well, get considerable
honey, from wild aster or weeds. Drones in full flight before 1 PM. 
A number of young queens must have been impregnated. In condensed queen
nurseries where many bees are hatching very easy to get the young bees to help
weak nuclei. A very large colony has only one queen cell sealed a week
after queen was caged, two unsealed, a very strong one had reared only one. 
Some have reared none. Find a number of caged mismated queens dead. 
After a while the bees seem to neglect them. (17th) 45 to 72 degrees. Very pleasant. 
A nucleus skedaddled, had two caged queens besides the one went off. 
Found a worker with honey bag outside on back, full of honey, it
burst when handled. (18th) 56 to 70 degrees. Bees worked well for a few hours, strong wind
and a spit of rain at 1 PM. Bright sun, wind changed from southwest to northwest. Thermometer fell
to 62 degrees and few bees stirred, secretion of honey stopped, at 9 PM 48 degrees, severe frost threatened. 
(19th) 38 to 62 degrees. White frost, thermometer placed on the grass 32 degrees. No harm except the
chilling effect done here, but I fear very destructive frosts in frosty regions. Bees
flew well, drones active, very little gathered, unusually disposed to rob. Original
Dzierzon queen seems larger and is laying more freely. No sign of drones being
molested in colonies where I feed. Young bees playing out freely in about 12
days after hatching. May have flown before. Thermometer 10 PM, 46 degrees. 20th. 39 to 68 degrees. 
No frost, splendid day. Found a dozen or more young queens in nuclei just impregnated. 
First day warm, clear and still and just right for queens, for some time. Queens over
ten days old met the drones. Opening a nucleus found their young queen imprisoned, pulled
bees from her and allowed her to take wing, she soon entered the hive, they seized her
again, liberated her again, she took wing as before, was seized again, and in endeavoring
to liberate her provoked the bees and she was stung. Dissected her, found her spermatheca only
partly filled, her vulva crowded with semen. She had just returned from drones. Drones
began to fly today about 11 AM. (21st) 47 to 76 degrees. Bees have worked well today. 
Saw them on asters, ironweed, goldenrod. Thousands of insects upon asters and
goldenrod, some like lightning bugs, think they got most of the honey. Aster
from Cleveland earlier than that on College campus that ordinarily blossoms when the
weather is too cool. Easy to spread aster and solidagos so as to make good fall
feed. Young queens and old ones first given to bees often double up or hump their
backs. For nuclei alter depth of frames so as to make nuclei frames as
deep as present frames in full hive, one frame of comb will then make three
for nuclei without waste. In setting off full hives take of front end
of top cover, set hive in cover. When weather cool cage queens near queen cells. 
Italian bees having so few worms, honey boxes taken off will not suffer as from black bees. 
(22nd) 50 to 81 degrees. Splendid day for honey, must be honeydew, later in the day bees working
on aster and goldenrod which need heat and sun to yield honey. Several nuclei which have
had queen of last year caged have got rid of young queens from sealed queens and young ones