to box hives at a distance to get Italian pure drones for another season
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Nuclei start two queen cells - put the queen cells of several nuclei
into one - and set the others raising more - can get from a few nuclei
a great many queens to be used before hatching - this a very good
thought - Queen with imperfect wing out again on the grass - gave
her to another colony - (6th) Hot and dry - Shut out bees from frames on
sheet - when searching for queen gave them an Italian - received her
with joy - some were not shaken off (had been deprived of queen day
before) - Soon after putting bees back found Italian queen dead before
the hive! She marched in with other bees all right - those on comb
killed her - In nucleus raising queen - few workers many drones - saw drones
on sealed queen like workers - At 10 P. M. looked at a hive and found
a worker with large balls of propolis on his legs - (7th) Very hot - showers
passed around us - bees work very well - Linden nearly gone - white clover
very abundant - bees active upon it - (8th) Hot - A. M. - 72 degrees - showers - took
an Italian Queen from Glass Hive to breed from - shook bees on sheet in front of box -
when shaken out of box before nucleus box, queen seen at once - a very
splendid queen - these Italian queens quickly seen - this a point of very
great importance - (9th) Splendid rain last night - In examining several
stocks to which Italian Queens had been given found that the queens were gone -
I gave according to rule except that I did not give queen in her cage
her own workers - (10th) Showery - 11th - 12th - Showery - hail at a distance -
thunder showers passed round us all day of 12th - changed to very cold at night
Many icebergs have been mentioned - one steamer lost her propeller -
l3th - 50 degrees - Clear but cool - bees work but little - 14th - clear - cool - bees
worked in P. M. better - clover still abundant - but fading fast - All
my three queen cells from [illegible] stock hatched last week - none of them
as handsome as some from the Parsons stock - three just hatched seemed [inserted: nearly] all
light - but next day had changed to black - (15th) Cloudy - wet - cool -
Three days ago shook off bees from comb in hive with Dayton Queen comb -
that had a fertile worker and has reared many drones � and gave the comb
to a forced swarm - the hive has reared many drones - large - as the cells
were built out almost like queen cells - they had four or five queen cells
two weeks ago - some sealed - but all had drone larvae which died - and others I 
opened - the same excess of royal jelly - The bees put in a common box - weather
has heen poor for [illegible] - but today they have a piece of drone comb -