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Jelly royal - found (June 17th 1852) a considerable quatity in bottom of a
cell containing an unhatched queen - looked like Quince jelly - light -
swarm uncommonly well - Prof. Cary's glass hive swarmed 5th time - four Young Queens - 4 in
the previous one! Used bees or nuclei and gave to weak swarm - On 21st made
two more swarms for Mr. Cross - Trmendous shower with wind hail passed South of us -
 (23rd) Hot but sun obscured with fleecy clouds. In P. M. bees very active
and great honey day - (24th) Have 4 just hatched Italian Queens - all well colored -
and one as much so as I ever saw - Windy - bees in [illegible] have done very
well - the plan a great success - (25th) A nice shower - made more swarms -
More Italian Queens hatched-two not well colored - Great day for 10. \iey. '26th
Two nuclei with Young Italian Queens deserted - found them and put them in boxes
with some brood comb - Think my nuclei too small - bees discouraged -
found hive with Dayton stock raising queens - two sealed - a number
unsealed - many scattered sealed drones - very [illegible] - must have
or have had a fertile worker - Was the splendid queen killed after
she began to lay? or are there queen cells occupied by drones! In the
A. M. clouds with appearance of rain - very clear in P. M. and much
cooler - (27th) Quite cool A. M. - 56 degrees - Lost an Italian Queen by showing to others -
fell and escaped - Another nucleus with Italian Queen abandoned - lost - another
with black queen seen to go out and saved - A very large forced swarm
left - night before confined their black queen in A. M. let her out for bees
but she took wing - saw her high in air - in a few minutes she lit on hive
caught her and carried her to hive side of barn (rods off) opened cage to give
her to a colony there - thought she went in - but not sure - she must have
taken wing and gone back - her first flight enabled her to do so! Queens
extra good in making hive - ought to have clipped her wings - this the
penalty of experience - sealed and unsealed brood that had been given left
no frame guides in the hive - Bees very fond of the [illegible] - I think much
more so than of white clover - (28th) A little rain before day - Good showers
in A. M. - not enough for potatoes - 29th - a bee tree at College swarmed
went off - when they rose to go off well [illegible] - An Italian Queen lost by going
to meet drones - Lay her loss to [illegible] - Another nucleus with