Dzierzon queen - both queens laying together - Propensity of queens to gut
or sack queen cells - is it not at its height soon after birth? It seems
to me as queens grow older to diminish very much - Splendid weather for corn
and sorghum - Summer heat day and night still continues. (27th) 54 degrees 78 degrees
Cool AM - but splendid day - many colonies have very little brood - some have been
fed too fast. Queen seen moving through cocoon hatched in about six hours after
first noticed. Opened a queen cell on side - gutted - hurt queen? Important
When queen cells crowded - if one hatches remove comb with cells to another
nucleus - this safer than to remove just hatched queen - Am getting some
splendid young queens - (28th) 62 degrees 80 degrees Splendid summer day. Drummed an
old box hive to which an Italian queen had been given - drone brood only - some
hatched - beautiful queen - her wings imperfect - noticed the protuberance that
Huber speaks of. Put old box in place of another colony shook out its queen
and bees - the situation so strange that robbers began to steal their
honey - when it was evident that they would be robbed of all their honey in
spite of their fighting - I shut it up and kept pouring water from a watering
pot over the hive - this stopped the zeal of the robbers - Still keep
missing queens - number lost to one or even more than earlier in the
season - Still get beautiful queens - Had today beautiful granddaughters
of Ligurian queen No. (l) - (29th) 62 degrees 78 degrees Splendid summer day - considerable
wind - toward night begun to cloud over. (30th) 60 degrees 66 degrees. Heavy rain in the
night - wind changed to NE - much cooler - splendid day - September ends
most auspiciously for the farmers - Safe plan of giving queen to old
box hive! Drum hive - cover with sheet so that robbers can not get at it and
put in cool place - Shake out bees near their old stand - secure queen in cage
let them stay in box till late in the P. M. - bring out old stock put it on its
stand - put caged Italian under it or between its combs � then shake out bees and
let them go up - this makes all safe from robbery. Important observations!
[crossed out: August] September 19th - I gave to a nucleus a [inserted: caged] queen that had been caged August 8th. 
She was then some days old and may have been impregnated. (20th) Uncaged queen
 (22nd) 5� PM one egg! Might have been impregnated on the (20th) - 26th - In
examining nucleus several days ago bees excited - flew much - queen missed
found her today laying very freely in a [crossed out: strong] colony near the nucleus - it
had many sealed queens - she had not meddled with them - 27th Found a very
beautiful queen hatched - old one still laying - removed young queen - 28th - Removed
another young queen some queen cells sacked - 29th - Laying queen dead before
hive! with an immature queen [inserted: she was impregnated] Found very active young queen in hive. I am
more and more inclined to think that the instinct for sacking queen
cells is comparatively feeble when queens have passed a certain age. 