they did last Fall but do not pair. Hope to get mostly though with queen
raising in three weeks. 26th. 45 to 75 degrees. Beautiful day. Early in the AM, notice
in one stock large quantities of drone larvae [illegible] out of strong stock, and yet
it has been regularly fed, but they wisely decline to rear any more. The mortality
that is going on in a hive best seen in these cool mornings when the
portico and apron board are often covered with dead bees. Sun does much
to quiet bees. Taking off the cover if you retire the sun will drive them
down and they are much more quiet. Huber. Shook out too many bees
to help a nucleus and they killed all the bees in nucleus. Bee bread
in many nuclei so scarce that it has to be supplied from old stocks. 
Every season when bee bread is being put in so largely I dread an
excess but toward close of season find it all needed. Hives with
queens only moderately fertile. This season much richer in honey than
those which have bred most freely. Would it not be well in poor honey
season to cage [crossed out: at least] queens of at least one half of hives for some time. 
27th. 46 to 74 degrees. Triangular comb guide. Very important. My
first triangular comb guide had nearly one inch equilateral
triangle. In my first remarks about it, see Gu, Vol. (2), I
spoke of this as giving more surface for attachment, directly the
reverse of the facts in the case. They get a much smaller attachment
than on a flat surface. My narrower guides much better. The
law is this to secure as large a triangle as may be and not have the
bees (as when they are too large) fail to lay their foundation cells,
 (pentagons) so as to cover the whole of the two sides of the triangle
and the flat part of the bar. In this way with an equilateral triangle
we gain one side for attachment, thus end view section. 
If the triangle is 3/8 inches on two sides and only 2/8 inches on the base where fastened to
the bar, thus 3/8 + 3/8 = 6/8 inches. 6/8 - 2/8 = 4/8 = 1/2 = the attaching surface gained
over a flat surface. 3/8 + 3/8 = 6/8 and 6/8 - 3/8 = 3/8 and 4/8 - 3/8 = 1/8 = the attaching
surface gained by using a triangle 3/8 x 3/8 x 2/8 instead of 3/8 x 3/ x 3/8. It
is doubtful whether this gain is enough to pay for the trouble of an unequal
triangle, yet no trouble if cut with a proper plane, or cutter. If 4/8 x 4/8 x 3/8
would answer, then 4/8 + 4/8 = 8/8 - 3/8 = 5/8 gain of attaching surface. If 4/8 x 4/8 x 2/8 then
4/8 + 4/8 - 2/8 = 6/8 = gain of attaching surface. Now as the width of bar is only
an inch, we might thus gain, if the bees will build as they do with