 (5th) 78 degrees An inch of rain fell yesterday - Laid the last tile in
part of ditch of already dug
my drain in a heavy shower - if not laid the whole ditch
would have filled with water - caved in etc. - Toward 6 P. M. bees began
to get much honey from apple tree blossoms (6th) Clear - sultry � bees
working strongly on apple blossoms - 10 A. M. heavy rain - In P. M. bees
again working strong on blossoms - About 8 P. M. tremendous rain � part of
my dam gave way - never saw more surface water (7th) 2 1/5 inches
of rain fell in the last 24 hours - tornadoes, freshets, hurricanes etc. 
Wind N. E. - cold - bees stir but little - 8th - 39 degrees - Beautiful day
but cool - bees work well - too cool for impregnation of queens. (9th) 40 degrees 64 degrees
Beautiful day - [illegible] bees are now in splendid condition - Stimulative
feeding all important where Spring freeze so abundant - Bees have
got from the fruit blossoms only enough for immediate use - Will be ready
most of them to enter boxes when Locust blossoms - this the point to
be gained in this location - Too cool for queens to mate. (10th) 50 degrees 64 degrees
Rain before day - wind S. E. P. M. - sun came out - late in P. M. of today
and yesterday bees got considerable honey - Buckeye in full
blossom - apple trees nearly out of blossom - weather has prevented bees from
getting much honey from fruit blossoms - enough got to keep them in
the best condition - rapidly extending their brood (11th) Bees get some honey
pleasant - 65 degrees - One queen impregnated! (12th) About 10 A. M. began to
rain - wind N. E. - bees quiet - rained quietly all day - high wind after dark. 
 (12th) 50 degrees Steady rain last night - Have an Egyptian queen
which has become a drone layer - very fertile - eggs drop from her - shall
try to impregnate some of them from Egyptian drones - others from Italian - others
from black - are [illegible] - raise queens from those impregnated by Egyptian
so as to get back to pure bees - this would be as Malpighi says
maximus felicitas experindi - One inch of rain has fallen in the
last 24 hours � cold - steady N. E. - Fed all the stocks to encourage
 (13th) 49 degrees 52 degrees - Yesterday devised the plan for impregnating queens