(16th) very cool am. A Queen had murdered 8 Queen cells. Another taken from a hive where
she had killed one, began to open one supposed dead, found to have defective wings, pushed her
from the cell, [illegible] and returned. Put in a dead cell she opened this too. Queen [illegible]
[crossed out: (A) June 10. Eggs from glass hive.] Have now five unfertile Queens
in separate cages over one nucleus. White Clover very fragrant, could taste honey in it. Never
could before, saw another cell from which Queen had hatched and which deceived me by
being closed up by the bees. (17th) the cell opened by a Queen and closed again by the
bees did not hatch. Another partially opened by me and covered with a wad of wax hatched. 
Have a handsome Italian Queen from the drone layer. (see June 5th) showing that she has
been impregnated by [illegible] Italian drone and as none were hatched when she first began
to [illegible] a demonstration that a Queen may be a drone layer and afterwards become impregnated
and become a normal Queen. My theory as to color of Italians seems to be confirmed
[crossed out: (B) June 10th. Eggs from glass hive.] today I have had quite a
number of very beautiful Italian Queens, such as I got when Apple trees were
in blossom and the nuclei were in good heart, while those raised when they had
to be fed and were discouraged were generally poor in color. I have put as many
as six Italian Queens in cages over a nucleus rearing Queens and the bees fed them. I see
no reason why almost any number might not be disposed of in this way and very
great advantages be received. We can keep them on hand till wanted, make a
smaller number of nuclei do more [illegible] have the Queens when put to colonies
ready to seek the male at once and so lose no precious time. In the colony
[crossed out: (C) June 10th. Eggs from Coleraine young queen.] with so many had Queen cells,
one hatched in the AM, in the PM, I found that another had hatched
that the two had not fought and that there was still another Queen cell
did not know that these were there. May not the presence of several Queens in cages
deter the Queens from fighting and from killing sealed Queens. At 2 PM a
thunder shower ending in a fine rain of several hours. Doing a world of good
top of the ground was hard, and corn, etc. needed rain. It gives the bees a new
lease upon the white Clover. Am very windy. A nucleus whose Queen ought to
be fertile abandoned its hive, another with a Queen of only two days old deserted. 
[crossed out: (D)] cover of hive too much [illegible] open. After hiving the first, the bees acted as
though she was not in, in hiving the second saw both Queens go in, the one not
belonging was imprisoned, gave her to a colony when she again took wing and
returned to the same nucleus, removed its Queen and later found her all right a
very little hemmed in. (18th) cool AM at 2 PM a very fine shower. 
In the nucleus with so many Queens found one dead and another that
died. When these were taken off of combs, see 17th, bees did not gather on
the cages as they did on the others. This shows that precautions are needed. 
Found evidence that two or three queens have met common drones. See To