It has 180 cells fit to certain eggs - 46 have one each - 50 = 2 38 = 3 19 = 4
3 = 5 3 = 6 4 = 7 and 3 have 8 eggs each! Have given the colony comb in a
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nucleus box - some full of honey and bee-bread - others drone - and others worker
just started - and drone partially built - to see if [crossed out: queen] [inserted: fertile worker] when she has room
Joy in heaven over the repenting sinner. Phil. man. Piety in Spirit. P. 38-41
will so crowd her eggs - or whether they will build any worker comb - shall
also see if she will lay at all in worker comb when she can get drone -
16th - Yesterday much rain fell - ending in a cold mist - [illegible]
Cloudy and misty this A. M. but warmer P. M. - sun very hot - Examined 3 [inserted: drone] combs
of fertile worker colony - one had no eggs - one which they had enlarged had about
300 cells fit for eggs - with 640 eggs - the other [crossed out: 176 with 640 eggs] 376 cells
with 826 eggs - total eggs l466! There are probably several fertile workers
these eggs were laid in 24 hours - some of them were much smaller than the others
and had a semi [crossed out: illegible] withered appearance - some cells had 4 and 5 and a
few had none - these were mainly on the edges - (17th) 56 degrees - Cool night - very heavy dew -
Brood comb given to such a drone laying fertile worker stock as flew when shaken
out to their old stand - had eggs put in beside the worker eggs in the cells -
one fertile worker must have flown with the bees - Found yesterday the [illegible] queen which
has had the passage contracted for several days (till yesterday) with external evidence
of impregnation - a small thread like protrusion - an hour after it was gone - but her
passage was unusually open - Examined comb of fertile worker colony that had 826 eggs
yesterday and found l362 today! one cell had 10 eggs! 8 perfect ones 2 withered -
In the comb of eggs laid by queen they had put in some next to queen but mainly on
the side or top cells a little larger than the others - [inserted: In] Colony whose [illegible] queen was yesterday
impregnated noticed late in P. M. a worker driving out a drone - after sunset
several drones came out and took wing as in midday - some but not all
came back - after dark found half a dozen or more drones crawling on the outside - at 9
P. M. - found one out in the cold - still - Have no longer need of drones and honey is
failing - This P. M. white clover smells some - and bees active on it - (19th) Found a
few more drones early on the outside of that nucleus - opened and not six drones
left - had been say a hundred! Some were killed - saw a worker leading one out
Have probably gone to another hive - Saw hatching progeny of black queen and Italian drone
some well colored - In fertile worker nucleus saw pollen in the drone combs - In my Italian
Stock No. 1 - saw eggs in a piece of drone comb only place free from honey - no queen
these eggs were put regularly - may have queen as they opened queen cell - A vast number
of drones - bees without queen often gather well - but amazingly reluctant to build any new
comb - (P. M. ) Moved one of the fertile worker nuclei (I had made two of it) to a new