sides should not be bevelled to an edge - but boxes rest on them - Bees would thus have an admirable
chance to work in boxes - Slatted dividers might be combined with the arrangement figured on
Q o - June 27th 1863
Journal from Ri Showery - warm - close - o bees when not too wet get much I
honey - Nuclei filling up with honey - A swarm hived in wide
topped frames - and put out into [illegible] because their combs were
crooked - swarmed out yesterday - this common when new swarm is much disturbed -
Lose a great many young queens - A piece of comb with five sealed queens had one
hatch (It was laid on top of frames) she had killed one - My queen that
was confined yesterday - confined this as A. M. as soon as I opened the hive -
Caged a queen - and gave just hatched - found her confined - did not seem
hurt - A queen cell that had been left before sealing (nucleus deserted)
and then given to another colony was sealed - but contained a pure dwarf queen -
another opened after it was sealed - Strong nuclei - good weather - then large
queens - Had five hatch in such a nucleus all large - queen was impure
and none well colored - (28th) Splendid showers - bees got much honey before the showers -
A stock threw a moderate swarm - two empty frames had been put in center - one had
nothing built the other half filled (drone brood) - [illegible] sealed queens - one unsealed
one gnawed into - Gave after swarming a just-hatched queen (29th) Cooler - queen
given to swarming stock yesterday has destroyed queen cell - (caused the bees to do it?) In several
instances just hatched queens given to stocks whose fertile queen was caged have disappeared -
Have seen bees [crossed out: drag] [inserted: drag] off such queens - without hurting them - A colony that deserted
two days ago deserted twice today - Examined a colony and saw that
queen had laid no eggs - for last 24 hours - bees seemed hopeless - swarmed
out - deserted - Have confined their queen several times when I examined them -
Found a cluster upon a young queen that had entered a hive where 5 valuable
queen cells were - not so good a day for honey - more sun wanted - (30th)
Still damp - hot - cloudy some - bees this A. M. get little - Linden not yet in blossom!
Nucleus that came out twice yesterday came out today - colony with Young Queen [crossed out: illegible]
deserted - had everything right - I opened this A. M. - may not opening cause this? When
queen not in examined and found her closely pinned down - Old queen whose colony
had two sealed queens has destroyed them - They were begun before queen was given -
she had laid near them - and worms well grown - Had a queen hatch from a cell
taken from a hive six days ago - that had swarmed - The cells taken were enormous -
This queen was very good size - very dark - her mother had been with common
drone - Am fully satisfied that we have the pure bees - as we get such mean queens
when we know queens are mixed - That nucleus came out again this P. M. 
queen includer [crossed out: illegible] [inserted: kept in] queen - when bees returned found queen imprisoned!
Before it swarmed I had kept out a large number of drones from a hive by a
queen includer - Nearly all of them joined the swarm! Great abundance