Improved hives, some very poor. Raspberry at professor Mr. Farlands has a few [illegible]
too cool for bees to work much, all the better as brood most wanted now. 
(20th) 46 to 50 degrees wind northeast beautiful rain at 12 noon yesterday a few locust blossoms
noticed in the village. All of the stocks I wintered in my hives now in prime condition. 
When locust comes, will be ready to work with power, shall give them all a second
story and boxes on that. (21st) 62 degrees very rainy last night heavy Thunder
and lightning. Wind changed to Southwest after sunrise, heavy rain, Thunder
at noon, cleared off strong wind. Several of my young Italian Queens are fertile. locusts
will soon be in full bloom in the village. The heavy rain excellent for Clover. 
with fair weather a great promise for honey. The wet and cool weather giving
the Queens an opportunity to fill up sells of hatching brood with eggs of great
value to the stocks. (22nd) 46 degrees beautiful day. Found one of my very best
glass hive queens (fertile) gone. A beautiful Parmley Queen put in a cage
killed. The wires too coarse. Opened a hive which had a fertile glass hive
Queen taken from it, and a Kirtland rose Queen cell given. brood of glass hive
Queen humpback drone brood. The young queen had just returned from drone, [illegible] still
extruding, anxious to get rid of it a friend saw a bee try to pull it off and then
another succeeded. Examined the colony to which I gave the glass hive Queen
from this one, had some humpbacked, had cells from which drones had
hatched quite full of unsealed brood. Had also worker cells with eggs
and worms. This similar to the instance mentioned in my book. She was
shut in her first hive to keep her till the Italian drones hatched. 
She was hatched April 28th and given to last colony May 12th. She had plenty of bees and plenty of worker comb
from which bees had just hatched more central than the drone comb in which she
has layed. (see record of stock #50) a very fine Queen given from Cary's production. 
The best drone is fertile, shall raise Queens from her. She has in all probability
been with a Kirtland rose drone as but very few parsons drones were hatched when
she was impregnated. Parsons drones from my Queens of 1860 very poor confined with
Parsons glass hive queen drones or Kirtland (rose) drones. Found a queen hatched whose
cell was sealed on the 15th. She had killed 1 Queen, resealed 6, the darkest glass queen I
have seen yet. All the glass Queens hatched lately not so fair. Does not color depend some
upon activity bees, etc. Miss several of my [illegible] glass Queens that were fertile, does
not opening nuclei too often cause this. (23rd) wind northeast cool. locusts are now
blooming considerably in the village. Bees got bee bread from them but very little
honey. Delay has caused a very heavy laying of eggs in the cells vacated
by hatching bees. This gives heavy supply of bees for Clover, Linden. Saw drones from another