for want of pollen - few bees hatching - showing that there was a great falling off of
breeding - hives very full of brood - P. M. Wind changed to N. E. - cold - bees
in P. M. did nothing - fed for stimulus - Examined comb building in
new style of frame - pleases me better than anything I have yet seen. 
[diagram] Five L. W. G. seem best (24th) 36 degrees - Towards noon grew
pleasant and bees flew beautifully gathering much honey and pollen. 
made nuclei - stop up with wool - do not need to put into
cellar - Shall make a large number while fruit trees in blossom - (25th) 42 degrees
Yesterday P. M. wind passed to N. E. and at dark began to rain - cold and
raw this A. M. - so long as bees get pollen enough and I stimulate on such
days by a little feeding - delaying weather all the better- combs filling with
brood - Sugar maple in full blossom P. M. - rained heavily during the day
fed thin syrup - 26th 40 degrees 60 degrees N. E. Splendid day - bees very active on fruit
blossoms - pears in blossom (27th) 40 degrees 70 degrees - Splendid day - made many nuclei
much honey gathered - bees very strong - drones abundant - Tried injecting
semen - tube too small - shall make it larger with rubber bladder
adjusted to syringe so as to get more pressure - combs building well -
 (28th) Warm honey weather in A. M. - Rain in P. M. - made nuclei (see B 1)
without trouble from thin honey - (29th) 58 degrees 72 degrees Splendid day for bees - wind
enough to prevent them from getting too much honey - made nuclei - Sugar maples
have blossomed freely - about the same time with peach and cherry - 30th - 54 degrees 72 degrees
Windy as yesterday - Queen laying drone eggs - In a very strong colony
from which I had removed all drone comb except two which had say 1/4 drone
comb at the back side - queen had put drone eggs in those cells when
she had to leave the brood to do it! In the last comb no eggs in the worker
cells although the drones are nearly ready to seal over - A demonstration that
the instinct of the queen teaches her when to lay drone eggs and when not. 
May 1st Warm - 56 degrees 78 degrees - Bees very active late in P. M. on apple blossoms
fragrance powerful - At dusk thunderstorm - showery with thunder all night. 
 (2nd) Warm - very rainy in A. M. - wind passed to N. E. - cleared up in the P. M. 
an inch of rain fell since last night (3rd) 70 degrees - Bees get considerable
from apple blossoms - in full blossom - also dandelions - buckeye coming into
blossom - Never saw better weather for bees - enough not too much (4th) 60 degrees
Have made 33 nuclei - many beautiful queens have hatched - Make nuclei
to keep out of doors - wool them - at duck unwool (open) shut up early
next day - feed - Keep shut three or four days - Shall have a large box
to set nuclei boxes in - to shade - keep cool - dark if needed