parent hive left too long uncovered - bees began to rob it - covered except one corner and
bees defended it - Locust since the heavy rains do not smell - blossoms nearly gone
a J
and no more honey from this source - Saw yesterday [illegible] in full
bloom - White clover superabundant this season - Put [inserted: false] Queen in hive with guide
frames they appear to work well - Larvae put in a queen cell yesterday sealed
today - [crossed out: comb] cell was only partly built bees have made it full size -
The other larva still there but cell not enlarged - Hope to get through with
swarming in a few days more - (8th) Not so sultry - Wind E. - bees do not
get very much from white clover - heard humming of [illegible] bees in Honey Locust
Two stocks with Guide frames - uneasy - found no work in one - dead
bees in the comb unremoved - comb not stuck fast - no eggs in it! some
honey - confined queen in cage - in P. M. - found wax [illegible] - let
bees have queen with wings clipped - Another forced swarm with guide
frames and two good combs swarmed out - secured queen - clipped her
wings returned her with bees - Shall now use guides a few days after
[illegible] the swarm - [illegible] discovered in College Campus yesterday -
Nucleus in which larvae are put in begun queen cells had one sealed as
a perfect queen - another like a fertile worker - Had two queens laying eggs. 
 (9th) 62 degrees 86 degrees - Clear - bees work much on clover - extra good day -
Tulip tree alive with bees, bumble-bees flies etc. - Honey Locust lasts
but a short time - not of much account as clover at same time - same
of Tulip - (11th) 57 degrees - One of Italian fertile eloped yesterday -
in hive with four nuclei - this the third lost there - Think
that they hear each other through the cracks! Shall only use it to
rear not to get fertile - Look at hive with Dayton combs - much
enlarged - saw no queen or eggs - gave them eggs from glass hive -
No. 3 Italian has queen cells in upper apartment - Linden will
blossom well - buds well formed - (15th) During the past few days weather
hot - nights (last night excepted) cool - pleasant breezes - bees working
with prodigious energy � white clover preeminently superabundant - bees
working well on [illegible] - Have made a number of swarms - Bees hived
with guide frames - swarmed out - when put in after bees have been
working a few days all right - Colony went out from Dayton hive - had
made but little comb - put in old box - had worked prodigiously
when put in hive with [inserted: old] comb lined all the edges [inserted: of cells] with wax
cannot bees repress at will secretion of wax? If pollen enters largely
into wax may they not refuse to eat it? Have given one Italian