Delay in rearing queens after removal of queen. 
Bees often delay beginning queen cells until the material is almost too old. 
Today found queen cells in a good colony with six full combs of brood,
and two with none. On the 2nd and 6th (the two outside ones with brood) in these
eggs had been laid last, and the queen cells were not all sealed. The brood in the
other cells was too old. Drones. Quantity of drones in all stages enormous. 
Strong stocks which have not been fed perfectly crammed with drones, and brood
and nearly all the honey gone. Triangular guide. Would it not be much
better to make the guide very small, just large enough to have the two sides of the
pentagon run on it and the main fastening of the comb be a flat surface. 
To brush off bees from combs. Use brush of soft grass, after shaking
off stock as come readily. In rearing queens on a small piece of
brood cage queens near the brood. For queen rearing, use if you can
bees that have been rearing queens, their hands are in. 
Use a fork for lifting out one end of heavy frames. 
What class of bees go off with the swarm, old, young or both. 
As all ages best for work of hive, would infer that all ages go off
with swarm. Today this point fully settled. July l3th. Removed
a very fertile impure Italian queen, her bees very meanly colored, from
a very large stock, crowded with bees and brood, no drone brood. Gave
(14th) splendid caged fertile [inserted: July 12th] Italian. 15th. Uncaged queen, well received. 
August 1st. Queens raised from her eggs show that she is pure, and at a later
date her hatched workers splendid. A great contrast between
them and the progeny of impure queen. August 23rd. Threw
an enormous swarm, swarm composed of bees of impure
and of pure, many so young that but to go with the swarm they would
never have left the hive. Secured the swarm. Examined the
mother stock found 4 sealed one unsealed queen cell, very large cells
hatching and sealed drones and drone eggs. Colony very full of brood in all stages,
all the drones and drone brood from young queen. A very fair number
of bees remained behind, old and young from both mothers. 
It took me considerable time to examine bees got a little
of the honey, when shut up tried to rob it, back ventilator
open all front open, could not rob it. This settles the question
as to what kind leave etc. What decides what bees go or stay. Do
those that stay have a load of honey. Opened top, a certain number rushed
out, others not inclined to go, Huber's idea that those that stay are the ones
that return after swarm has left from the field will not hold good
for often next to none leave for work before swarm.