(when swarming is not desired) one queen to dispose safely of all her rivals. 
Good colonies still incline to build many queen cells, and to feed the worms
very generously. Long lever, a stick of hard wood or a long screwdriver
very useful to loosen frames, a good purchase breaks the propolis without
any very terrible jar. (27th) 52 to 71 degrees. The nuclei can no longer be depended
on. They not only incline to desert, but queens even when impregnated do not incline
to lay. (28th) 55 to 65 degrees. Cloudy, windy, damp, but few bees stirring. Quite
a number of queen cells in my condensed queen nurseries have failed to hatch. 
Some strong colonies which have been fed daily to preserve drones and which
have had just laying queens given them have a great stretch of brood. 
To encourage late breeding, feed a little daily, if stock well off for
honey, otherwise more liberally. (29th) 62 degrees. Heavy thunder last night and
some rain. Splendid growing weather. An intelligent farmer informs me that
on the 22nd and 23rd when bees did such great work, the beech and hickory trees
were covered with lice and honeydew, also that in his cornfields many
suckers have grown out large and thrifty from stalks where the corn
was ripening and the stalk drying, somewhat like sugar cane, showing
a similar nature in corn. Common potatoes which before the rain had
few potatoes larger than walnuts, are now promising a generous yield. 
Introduced a fertile queen in less than 19 hours to a [inserted: good] colony deprived of its fertile queen. 
Took out comb, placed her on it, bees appeared delighted with her. Found a dozen
or more queen cells gutted by a fertile queen, they were made after she was given to
the bees, two not yet gutted. She had layed freely. Had supposed her lost. 
Interesting as showing propensity of bees to build and protect queen cells when a change
is made of queens. (30th) 52 to 55 degrees. Wind northeast, cloudy, raw, few bees [crossed out: stirr]
stirred. If colonies were fed now a little regularly it would enable queens
still to deposit eggs freely. Have not noticed any expulsion of drones in colonies
which are fed regularly, although they are gathered together in some of them as though
they would soon be expelled. October (1st) 46 to 52 degrees. Very raw northeast
rainy AM. (2nd) 52 to 57 degrees. Cloudy, raw. (3rd) Cloudy, some rain. (4th) [illegible]
Sun came out a little, bees flew prodigiously, much pollen considerable honey gathered. Rain
again in the night. (5th) 60 to 62 degrees. Much rain during the day, bees have not flown. 
Wind in the AM northwest, PM got back into old quarter southeast. (6th) 52 to 66 degrees. Wind southwest
Notice as last year that the small nuclei are of little account so late in the season. Even if queen
impregnated they do not incline to lay. When weather so cool that in small colonies bees
cluster densely (packed) queens do not incline to lay, do they feed them for laying. The sun
has shone brightly today, wind strong from southwest. Bees have been out well, working on the aster
on campus nearly till sundown. A warm clear up for the season, does it indicate