strong. Found two sealed queens destroyed, two sealed and one
unsealed unhurt. Fertile supplanting queen led the swarm. 
Hived them giving two frames of honey sealed, other frames about
3/5th full of comb, comb poor, musty and some mouldy. Am
very curious to see what they will do. In trying to get a fertile
queen out of cage she took wing, was brought to me from a
distance, shook off some bees from a stock convenient, and
as bees flew back to their hive, she went with them, bees knotted
upon her as she alit on portico entrance, removed her safely. When
a queen takes wing always see that bees ([illegible] if possible) are
on the wing, and she will generally go to them. 11th. 64 to 75 degrees. 
The change to cooler weather has impaired the flow of honey in the
buckwheat, next to nothing done by bees today. The new swarm
had frames of honey given, doing next to nothing, but little
seen yet to be done on 2nd crop of red clover. A swarm
of July, fed for drones, with queen cells preparing to swarm. 
If there should be anything to get my colonies so well filled
with bees that they could take advantage of it. More bees and
brood than in Spring or June. The sound made by queen quite
distinct from that made either by drones or workers. Avant courier. 
Into each stock prepared for imported queens put when I thought
all queen cells removed, so that if a fertile worker small queen
or small queen cell should be there it will be manifest, she will be
killer or killed. Gave laying queen to colony with young unlaying
one, a bee quickly seized her leg, others soon joined and she became
a prisoner, removed her from them. Wide topped frames. If
combs are not true cannot be seen, and cannot cut apart. 
Must have a tool for prying or lifting up frames to lower them on
the rabbets. (12th) 56 to 71 degrees. Too cool for much bee work on buckwheat.