her fast. Her legs were held, when free she flew but at once
came back, entered the hive, in a few minutes left, was gone
ten minutes, returned unimpregnated. Caught her, let her fly,
she came back at once, caught her let her fly again, she darted
away and I did not see her return. [inserted: she never returned] Sexual desire then exists
after the time when Huber asserts they become drone layers. 
A queen was born June 17th, caged on the 20th, July 13th, removed caged queen
to another colony. 14th. Liberated her, well received. 19th, queen laying,
brood of this queen all normal, worker brood. Huber's opinion that a
queen whose impregnation was so long delayed can in no instance produce
worker progeny, not correct. August 8th. Beautiful queen and workers from [inserted: this queen. ]
Will bees remember and for how long, their queen, when presented
to them after temporary removal. Removed a queen from a very full
stock, two days after found queen cells begun, returned her, next
day found her laying and queen cells discontinued. August (1st)
64 to 80 degrees. Hive much scented with buckwheat honey. A large microscope
useful for lighting punk as well as [illegible]. A queen caged four days
six hours after uncaging had not opened two queen cells in a small
nucleus. May not bright yellow queens incline to pair with Italian
drones, and dark ones with dark drones. Queens spin a very stout
cocoon, being larger than workers they would naturally have more silk
but as workers spin complete and queens incomplete cocoons, this will
cause queen cocoons to be stouter. Important discovery for facilitating
the rapid breeding of queens. Easy to get many queen cells, difficult to
utilize them. My previous plans have all been attended with imperfect
success. It would seem that at last I have succeeded. Have many
queen cells constructed at intervals. When a queen is a few hours old cage
her and give colony a queen cell nearly mature. At proper time cage this
second queen and give another nearly maturing queen cell. Cage her
in turn and liberate first queen, when she is laying or known to be
impregnated cage her and liberate the second, cage her when fertile and
liberate third queen. Even more queen cells might be used. Try letting
each queen lay before caging, the purity of the Italian queens may be
tested. I find that in summer weather these young queens are
almost always well cared for, and that on liberation each is well received. 
I can thus get many more queens from each nucleus in a given time.