Beautiful observations on instincts of bees. 
In hiving the great swarm of the 10th, I gave them two outside
frames (1 and 10) empty old drone comb such as a queen wishing
to lay drone eggs would have readily accepted for her eggs. 
Next two combs (2 and 9) filled with sealed honey taken from
a full stock. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, frames about 2/3rd full of new comb,
not wrought to full depth much of it, such as would require
considerable work ([illegible] of honey) to rear brood in, but
such as in a full honey gathering time would be at once used
for brood and extended and completed. Since the bees have
been hived very little honey gathered, too cool. The bees were
evidently discouraged because the combs they preferred were separated
two on one side and two on the other. Opening this AM, I found
not an egg in the drone combs, although the queen had been
laying drone eggs freely in the present hive. In one frame honey
uncapped near the bottom and worker eggs laid. The other frame
had 3/4th or more of all the capped honey removed and was full of
worker eggs. In an ordinary state of affairs this honey would not
have been uncapped. Not an egg in the central combs which
to be used for breeding would have required an expenditure of honey. 
One of those combs was mostly drone, and an inch or two of worker comb
had been built upon the lower edge of the drone cells, for the
queen to lay eggs in. Shall look at the comb not emptied to
see if much of it is not drone comb. The whole proceedings of
this summer show, an admirable reasoning faculty. 
I have put the two drone combs on the outside (1 and 2) next the
cells that had honey (3 and 4), then the others not fully wrought,
and have no doubt the bees will feel much encouraged by the change. 
15th. Bees have felt encouraged. Nearly all the sealed honey removed from
the two combs, the two empty drone combs nearly full. 
August 23rd. Another swarm removed sealed honey to give queen room for eggs and
put it in drone comb. Two swarms had queens taken from them, brood given to raise
queen cells, raising many, they have of course let sealed honey given them alone.