Blacks still show their robbing propensities, always on hand for this business. 
Dissection of stomach of queen might show if honey her only food
or what bees feed to her. In winter bees assume somewhat in cluster
form of a globe, does not my shape of hive give all the facilities they
want for this. Debeauvoy in reversing his frames, forgets the
indisposition of bees to work in combs put upside down. He used the
large triangular guides. Otis says queen will not lay in such comb. 
Any unnatural arrangement of combs has a very discouraging effect upon bees. 
Mending old combs, bees very slow to build in old comb, cannot easily
attach new on account of cocoons of cells, would covering help. 
Have made successfully many nuclei without putting in cellar or shutting up. 
Nearly all bees leave but the young ones, the pluck of these wonderful, would
not answer at all with black bees. A comb not out of hive with a few young
Italians on it robbed, the last young worker caught robber by the legs. 
Nuclei much better made from stocks queen raising. 
In an apiary of hundreds of stocks the swarming out of a small
nucleus easily seen, flight of bees so different, revolving. 
Triangular comb guide. If the triangle is too large bees forsake the
pentagons and a poor attachment is gained. Find even with 3/8 inch triangle
many pentagons are not completed. 1/4 x 1/4 x 1/4 probably best. What is
apparently lost in attaching surface more than made up by all
the pentagons being carried out. Can patent this. Clark's
large triangles had very poor attachments, but his hollow winter
passage tubes held combs, also side attachments of combs held them. 
With large triangles frames very like to drop out. Crickets eat young
larvae pulled out of cells, very small crickets busy about hives. 
A nucleus swarmed out removed queen, sought for by them. Most
of them clustered on empty queen cages in my basket from which queens
had an hour ago been taken. [illegible] comb may be given to nuclei
with no hatched queen, as they cannot leave. Size of winter slots about
two cells wide, same as distance between combs.