Bees fed twice - If I had been home should have fed them much more liberally
to be sure and prevent check to breeding - especially of drones - Such weather calls for great
judgment on the part of the beekeeper - Heavy freshets - probably snow farther north. 
 (27th) 36 degrees 46 degrees - Much rain last night - drizzly during day - at one time a few
bees on the wing - Fed thin warm sugar syrup twice - [illegible] N. E. storm -
Snow North. Egyptian queen seems to be laying drone eggs mostly - have given
her a frame of young hatching brood to give her young bees and more bees - Fear that this
long cold spell has checked breeding in spite of feeding. (28th) 40 degrees 46 degrees. Wind still
N. E. - spits of rain - clouds broke away some before sunset - Colony to which
[crossed out: gu] many comb guides were given in a large frame have followed them admirably. 
Queen has laid on the new comb - It may be better to use more than
three - by making them small and dipping them into melted wax they may be put
on very rapidly - Would a uniom of triangular guides with these work better -
It would be very easy to fasten them by just dipping in melted wax - and they
would be as cheap if not cheaper than triangular guides - Call them Langstroth's
wax comb guides. Have fed bees twice today with thin syrup - saw eggs
laid in drone cells since this long cold storm began - It is more like a
genuine New England North Easter than anything I have known since I came
out West - 29th 36 degrees 60 degrees - Splendid cloudless day - Wind still N. E. ! It has
stormed out - Bees bring much pollen - some honey - 30th 36 degrees 62 degrees Splendid
day - Wind N. W. - a week of N. E. - By feeding bees have been breeding well - queens laying
drone eggs - A strong colony had 3 L. W. C. Guides (Langstroth Wax comb Guides) They
used them and made two other starters - There were drone eggs in them - today find
two of the drones changed (as they enlarge them) into worker cells - An extraordinary promise
of fruit blossoms - never saw in this latitude peach trees so full of blossom buds (31st) 36 degrees
Perfect day - regulating combs etc. many robbers - have only a very few black bees - left in stocks
not yet changed by Italian queens - and yet [crossed out: 9/10] 9/10th of all the robbers were black bees!
Wax guides just moulded with the fingers and set on in heat of sun answer admirably -
much better than thin plates - so easy to work by the bees! How true that
simplicity is the last thing often reached - The triangular edge enables us to
set these guides much better - see where to put them - and have a place to squeeze
them to attach them - No doubt the guiding edge and and wax guides made
together a better thing than either alone - April 1st 42 degrees 70 degrees Windy - bees get
but little - Put on Langstroth guides in the house - Have wax pure and a
little warm - 2nd [crossed out: 25 degrees] Wind changed to N. W. - grew cold fast - fixed Dr. Hill's bees - saw how
black queens spread their brood - His bees have not been stimulated - weak
compared with mine - Those shook out before have chilled - get back
to hive by aid of corn cobs laid to walk on. 