and some honey - Still has blossoms - Very important to bees here - Raspberry beginning
to blossom - Queen sent by Mr. Cary (Egyptian impregnated by Italian drone) came by mail
all her bees dead - she very lively - laying very well - (22nd) 50 degrees - Fed
all the stocks twice - drones in full flight - Raspberry in blossom - Buckeye
still yields some honey - (23rd) 49 degrees - Very [illegible] weather - bees get more honey - did
not feed today - Small and poorly developed queens slow to get fertile - many
of them lost - far larger proportion than of well developed queens - (24th) 52 degrees 74 degrees
Beautiful day - drones in full flight - Honey got in small quantities - (25th) 51 degrees
Very hot - Bees have next to no honey but boxes are very populous - In
just the right state to do big work if honey is abundant - [illegible] now selling
on my new style of boxes - without any honey board - am much pleased with the
plan - bees enter them very readily - (26th) 52 degrees 80 degrees - Locusts in warm spots
beginning to show blossoms - Tulip trees just blossoming - White clover in warm
spots beginning to blossom - Important plan for getting largest yield
of surplus honey where it comes with a rush - Say 50 hives in an
Apiary - Just before the great honey harves - if any are not well
filled up with bees and brood, transfer combs full of brood from
one hive to another - putting the empty combs into the one robbed of
its brood - Do this even if one half of the stocks are left
comparatively weak - The strong ones filled with brood having their boxes
etc. all right must go into them in great force as soon as honey
abounds - From one thus made extra strong more honey will be
secured than from two or three only moderately strong - Later after
honey harvest is over the colonies may be equalized if needed -
If these strong stocks swarm - hive them temporarily in boxes - remove say one
third to one half of the brood combs with all the boxes to new swarm - and
give old stock a fertile young queen - so that they will not build drone
comb - The new swarm will then go right on working in the boxes. 
Hives with l3 frames best for such a plan - (27th) 60 degrees 70 degrees - Last night very
powerful wind - thunder - 1/2 inch rain - a truly blessed rain for the crops - In the A. M. 
bees got some honey - towards noon began to rain - rained considerably in the P. M. - Fed
 (28th) 60 degrees 80 degrees - A glorious day - bees very active - Towards evening locusts very
sweet - Important - Carpets over frames having much propolis on them
when set out in sun afford bees material needed for sealing boxes. [illegible]
See Q 127 See [illegible]