are not much bulged out. A young queen given to a nucleus just deprived of its fertile queen
gone - the same has happened several times - A queen cell opened by bees on its side - found
a very large beautiful queen - very blunt on u her abdomen - apparently all right - I could
not gnaw out? Made three more swarms by levying contribution - In one bees
got to robbing badly - when shut up bees soon defended themselves - Are wonderfully
good judges of robbers - do not repel them as strangers but as robbers - Bees are
from 4 hives - actions of the robbers disclose them - Hives wonderfully strong in
bees and brood but most of the woefully deficient in honey - Saw bees this P. M. 
more on clover - Swarms made by levying work very well - With the expert is not
this the best way of making artificial swarms - (8th) 70 degrees - A nucleus with sealed queen
all at once hummed - found queen just hatched � opened on side and let out by
bees - have noticed the same several times before - In some instances the young
queen begins to lay in old comb when she has new, good worker comb - Found
a colony made by levying with caged queen dead - and the fertile queen - one of
those from hive from which brood was taken - Fair day for honey - Made a colony
by levying - hive unlike old ones - bees begin to rob - in less than a minute
after it was set in place of old one - bees caught robbers by the legs! Severely
attacked - a number killed - at last they gave it over - Lose more young queens
than last year - Prefer levying to all other modes of artificial swarming. 
 (9th) 70 degrees - Hot - smoky - bees getting considerably from white clover - Made more new colonies by levying -
One made as above from four in a hive with very different alighting board - caught robbers
in less than a minute - A very large nucleus made from a returned swarm which left
its hive - abandoned 5 or 6 times - gave them a sealed queen - hatched - bees stayed -
gave their queen to another colony she has been quiet - Saw false queen cells in a
new comb in a nucleus - thought queen gone - gave them brood - next day found her
fertile - a fertile queen gone - colony [inserted: nucleus] right - did hornet take her? Sun blood red
like Indian Summer - (12th) 64 degrees - Cool - Cloudy - Bees get next to nothing - (13th)
62 degrees - Cool, Cloudy - bees get next to nothing - Saw one egg in nucleus just about five
days after queen was seen impregnated - (14th) 64 degrees - Warmer - smoky - Shower with
thunder in P. M. - Before shower bees began to work on white clover last few days too
cool - wind N. by a little E. - Nuclei have had to be fed - Found a Young Queen laying very
freely in a hive with two sealed queen cells - Some of her eggs near the cells - nucleus
not over strong - have observed this a number of times - (15th) 56 degrees - Still very smoky
warmed up - bees busy on white clover - Thunder showers passed around
us - turned very cool - All the stocks examined that were made
by levying have many queen cells - Am delighted with the plan -
May not yellow queens have more tendency to mate with Italian drones
than those of dark color? If so important results will follow - See Q o