on the outside - then the empty frames with their wax guides. 
Am satisfied that this works much better than to put empty frames
between full ones - It imitates the natural proceedings of the bees (new
swarms - or stocks with hives only partially filled from previous year) in comb
building - Italian bees do seem to me more inclined than black ones
to building drone comb - Stocks or colonies with young queens will
build much drone comb - It will be necessary in the Spring to remove
this and this is the best way to do it - When one half more or less of
two combs are drone - cut - and fasten all drone in one and all worker
in the other! Important this - Such drone combs to be used for
storage of honey in supers or put on outside where queen will not
use it - May be used late in season to be filled with honey when
bees would no longer work in boxes - try to keep new drone comb in one
frame and old in one frame - the old can then be emptied by the machine. 
 (4th) 60 degrees. Sun very hot - clouded some - Smell mostly gone from Locusts and bees
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an admirable day for white clover honey - Several nuclei skedaddled. 
Much more common this season than for say four or five years - One small
one found on tree - when shaken on sheet before box - cleared off - was followed
for some distance - but made for the woods! Some of the best have skedaddled. 
Bees beginning to lie some in small boxes - expect them in a few days to begin
comb building in them - Important. The condensing plan will probably
cause many of the stocks to throw very large and seasonable swarms - so
much the better - for it seems to me that in this way more honey can
be got than if they did not swarm! Eggs and chickens both! I have
for some years been of the opinion that good natural swarms will do far more
work than the same force in nonswarmers or in artificial colonies
By giving the new swarm say [crossed out: five] six of the 13 frames and the boxes they will
probably work as well if not better in the boxes than if they had not swarmed
and by giving the rest of the combs with the bees that stay behind to a ten
frame hive with a [inserted: fertile] young queen they will make a very good stock
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