yesterday bees flying -looked under it and around it - She had crawled there - Knew she
was not killed from her natural position - Her colony have begun a number of queen cells -
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The other two [illegible] queens are fertile - one rather indifferent in color - other fair -
Quite cool - wind East - Found queen cell given (20th) to stock after taking away their queen
had hatched a beautiful queen - Found 55 incipient and discontinued queen cells - all
but a few (say six) - on the bottom edge of comb - and where there was an edge on the
face of comb [diagram] comb not filled out - but a break - In
another to which queen cell given (20) found just hatched queen
there queen cells given just after removing old queen! Found 15 of the cells given
 (20th) to the nuclei hatched - but one small queen - nearly all beautiful in size
and color - like the mother - could not have lost her at a better time - White
clover still very abundant - more so than it generally is in June - (23) [inserted: 50 degrees] Nucleus
that lost the beautiful queen have 13 queen cells with larvae - three of these were
given to them - Some six of these cells from glass hive failed to hatch - and yet they
were kept very warm - Night after given to the bees very cool - this would account for the
failure - Wind E. - very cool for season - (24th) Very cool night wind East - Opened a nucleus
with Young Queen infertile - when her comb put back She piped - Find that the nuclei
made up of fertile worker stock rear some drones - a few larvae attended to -
Have made four - Eager for queens - receive queen cells - make them from worker
eggs - when given - will not form their drone eggs - take unfertile queen - the
fertile workers still lay even where unfertile queens given! Since the division
not so much crowding of eggs - A Young Queen refused to lay in new drone comb but lays
in old worker comb! My [inserted: 2] large Italian stocks which have not swarmed still preserve
their drones - A [inserted: Young] queen [crossed out: hatched] out at 5 P. M. on alighting board - was not
impregnated - her 4th day since hatching - (26) Warmer last night - Mr. W's queen
that was dark has a queen hatched from her eggs - dark - Another handsome queen from
eggs of Glass Hive queen - A colony rearing queens plundered - no resistance - drones
[inserted: starved?] killed off and bees much thinned for want of honey - Gave them a fertile black queen -
have no evidence that my queen a week old [crossed out: today] [inserted: tomorrow] are fertile - Took out patterns from
a swarm - combs are admirably perfect - Workers from queen of last year impregnated by a
black drone are very beautiful (27th) At 5 P. M. - examined eight nuclei with
Young Queens of Glass hive - some 7 and others six days old - saw on three queens
evidences of impregnation this P. M. - bees still busy on white clover which is very
abundant still - 28th - Saw at 6 P. M. evidence of impregnation in two out of
five queens examined - these 7 days old - Last night thunder and fine shower -
today - another small shower - fine corn weather now - (29th) Found in nucleus of
hive where queen exhibited impregnation 40 hours ago - eggs - also larvae which must have been
from fertile worker laying after queen was hatched - Looked at Italian No. 1 which