My previous experiments had taught me how to preserve many queens
caged in a single colony. This last discovery enables me to get many to
be preserved. Shall try five or six. If from the piping of many confined
queens the one liberated liable to desert, keep a queen includer on except
between 2 and 3 PM. If confining young queens causes them to deteriorate in
color, this would be an objection to the plan. August 8th. Am very successful
in having bees attend to young caged queens when I give them to their own
colony. August 11th. After caging laying queens and at once uncaging 
unfertile ones several have disappeared. Bees knotted around one today
but in PM, she was all right. Ought not to uncage until laying one
has been caged a day. 
Age of Queens. The color of Italian queens like that of workers is
impaired by age. A queen never looks fairer than when she has
been laying a week or so. The color of queens the 2nd season much
duller. Think that I can now easily tell whether a handsome queen
is one of the current season or the previous one. (2nd) The brood of
the queen lost on the 31st was well advanced. Found two queen cells begun
next AM. This PM, about 48 hours after queen left, one of these
sealed over! Let it alone
and see what kind of
queen will hatch. 
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