from eggs of Ligurian No. (1). This small queen very much enlarged in
size. This AM, could find only one egg in the No. (2). Improper arrangement
of the combs greatly discouraged this stock. The brood combs were too much
separated, and not centrally. (I mean frames with sealed brood). Arranged
them properly early in the AM, and found the queen laying well in PM,
and bees evidently much encouraged. Gave them a frame with brood
sealed and unsealed, not centrally, and in a very short time found queen
on it. It is an unnatural condition for a colony in the breeding season to
have no brood to nurture. Nuclei etc. ought always to have young brood. 
September 2nd. This PM, at 4 o'clock a beautiful Ligurian queen hatched
from my smallest queen, notice nothing peculiar about her as to
size or color. If any peculiarity more vigorous, active on foot,
than the common run. This may be mere fancy, if so because they
have not been bred in so closely as the Parsons and the Dzierzon stock. 
4th. Have now had quite a number of queens from my smallest Ligurian. 
All thus far are beautiful, some quite small, this owing to the small
nuclei etc., none perhaps quite up to the mark of the splendid queens
I am now getting from a cross of the Parsons and Dzierzon stock. 
Do not notice anything to distinguish them as better than this stock but
have no reason to doubt that the cross will be an improvement. 
Shall in a day or two have queens from my large queen which have been
bred in full stocks. Am very curious to see how they will show. 
Shall submit a beautiful Ligurian to the cellar but treat next for color. 
9th. Yesterday and today have had several very meanly
colored queens from one of my Ligurians. The cells were reared
in large colonies, but the bees were mixed. As color is such
a nice thing it may be that as a general rule the rearing
of queens by workers mixed or hybrids may cause poor color. 
All of the queens from the other one were reared in nuclei with
pure bees and all show good color as yet. As I have queens from
the same queen (No. 2) rearing by pure bees, shall soon know. 
Have given cells from No. (1) to mixed bees to notice effect. 
Workers from Ligurian queen No. (1) very beautiful. Cannot however
distinguish them from workers of my pure queens. I could now easily
supplant all other queens but I do not wish to do so. 
Am strongly persuaded that the new strain of blood will give
me a better stock.