My Journal continued from Hi. August 2nd, 1865. (1)
to 84 degrees. Splendid corn weather. Bees work vigorously on buckwheat. 
A stock of black bees seem to work most in proportion to
their strength. Have before suspected that black bees work more
on buckwheat than Italian. Regina bellissima. A stock of
black bees reared several very beautiful queens from Italian eggs
one the most beautiful I think of any I have ever seen. So much for Mr. 
Kirby's theory. Colonies fed a little every night perfectly swarming with
brood. Important suggestion. Feed moderately in September or
late in August if bees are not incline to raise brood regularly so
as to get late bred bees for wintering. Last Fall breeding stopped
early, eggs in many cases of queens just laying eaten up so that I
could not test them. This made the stocks too light in bees to
winter well, and too many of the bees were old, think that for every
pound of syrup fed last fall I should this season have received more
than double. Important: August probably the best month for breeding
Italian queens. The stocks not gathering much and can readily spare
bees for nuclei, weather warmer and more settled than in Spring or June,
black drones not so numerous. In September a second crop of black drones. 
Have found more queens mismated in that month than in August. (3rd)
69 to 84 degrees. But little done on buckwheat, at 6 PM, very heavy thunder
shower. Yesterday caught two curculio on a full grown apple, they have
been very destructive this season. Humble Bees. Smoked a colony with
punk, they gave in just as honeybees, the queen came out very soon,
dissected her and found her ovaries very full of eggs, did not find her
spermatheca, brood plenty but no honey. 4th. 84 degrees. Thermometer on
window ledge, not a fair exposure, would show 2 to 4 degrees warmer or
cooler on a fair exposure. Gave a [crossed out: cold] [inserted: comb] considerably mouldy to a
good nucleus, they cleaned off the mould! Uncaged a queen on the
4th day after impregnation, at 11 AM, she had not begun to lay at 6 PM. 
Was fortunate enough to find a queen on a comb where she had [inserted: just] laid 9 eggs,
so that I am sure as to the very minute when these eggs were laid. Shall
watch their development with the closest care. Caged a just impregnated queen
and gave a queen some fifteen hours old, [inserted: from another colony] in an hour found her closely confined
by the bees. Caged another queen supposed impregnated, and liberated an
unimpregnated caged queen in same nucleus, seemed to be well received