 (25th) 54 to 76 degrees. Southwest. Bees very active. In ordinary seasons little done on
blossoms of wild cherry. This year trees humming. Raspberries are in
blossom a little. Stocks growing heavy in honey. Two large white
pine trees at G. McCord's alive with bees, working on the expanding
buds. Made yesterday and today a number of nuclei in the
large hives, to be built up. And making admirable use of all
the good empty worker combs, and as soon as the locusts
bloom shall use all my old combs, important, may not
honey when too thin be brought by heat to the proper consistence. 
This is the way bees manage it. By sun heat or artificial
heat it seems to me that the thin honey emptied out of combs
may be brought to the right state. If so then the only objection
to employing honey unsealed removed. No danger in emptying
such honey of disturbing the unsealed brood. (26th) 62 to 80 degrees Southwest
bees very active. Ground Ivy gives abundant pasture. Locust have
in the last 48 hours made as much progress as in a week before. 
Very interesting. A large stock which in some way lost a Queen
swarmed, lit in two clusters. Examined stock found 28 good
Queen cells, only two seemed to have hatched. Shut up and
attended to swarm. In carrying to place hive fell and bees
rose again in air. While [illegible] attended to them looked
again into stock, found 15 Queen cells. More Queens had hatched. 
Before or after opening [illegible] sound of swarming bees they had
all taken wing. Secured only five with the swarmer. Put in
cages, bees paid very little attention to any but one. On cage
of one densely clustered, put this cage away from old combs on which
bees were clustered, shaking off of cage, other caged Queens [illegible]
still same, bees [illegible] and this cage put in the corner of portico still
some most of bees left comb to cluster on and around it. Liberated
a caged Queen, shaking bees from cage and making them enter hive



