place - Sealed queen given it fastened but not hurt - removed it and gave Hive a Young Queen just
hatched - ln its old place put nucleus box with one sealed honey comb - returning bees
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and drones running round in great agitation - Gave them drone combs with eggs from the
other half of original nucleus - set up a [illegible] roar as if all right - Gave sealed queen
to the other half - which I call - A. one with Young Queen B. - one to which eggs given B. - Found many
more drones returning to the nucleus getting rid of their drones than there were in the A. M. - they
had been to other stocks and at time of drone flying came to old stand - Saw
another swarm hauling some at drones - Am anxious now to get all the drones
I can raised in nuclei with Young Italian Queens - (20th) White Clover still very abundant
but bees do not work so much on it - This A. M. - examined Glass hive from
which Italian Queen from Mr. Cary's had been taken 12 days ago - and to which I had twice
given (under a tumbler) sealed royal cell which the bees destroyed - Found 26
perfect queen cells! ten hatched and while examining two others hatched
and in a warm room where they were put till they could be distributed
another large and very handsome hatched - They were all on the bottom edges
of the [crossed out: frame] combs - some very long - Bees exceedingly cross - smoked
but not drummed - Shook them on sheet before empty box - found
two queens - one small and not highly colored - other fair - Gave
the queens to nuclei - also queen cells - two of them to hives from which
a black queen had been taken - without much [illegible] to see result
In the P. M. nucleus to which Italian Queen from Glass hive had been given swarmed -
bees returned � saw queen (wings clipped) - a few bees with her not two
yards from here - left her two minutes to see how long she would take to
find her way back - gone when I returned! Could not find her in hive - Did
bird - toad - spider etc. take her - Nucleus from fertile worker hive to
which Young Queen was given had her safe - and yet more eggs in an empty drone comb -
another still laying drone eggs started a queen from worker eggs - while they
did nothing with eggs of fertile workers! Found worm in brood of one of
the nuclei - many bees entangled - in a small piece found a dozen or more -