A common remark that the locusts are unusually full of blossoms. The trees
are a white mass. Bees accumulate beyond all experience of mine. 
In many of the strong stocks about (1000) one thousand land per minute. 
 (2nd) 60 to 80 degrees Southwest. Glorious day for bees. Locusts all richness so much
of honey there that must delay emptying for a few days. When the
honey on sides and tops of combs are [illegible] sealed [illegible] will then
empty. (3rd) 58 to 80 degrees Southwest. Like yesterday till 4 PM then shower. 
Emptied some hives almost full of honey. (4th) 64 degrees
 (5th) Locusts very productive. Emptied about two hundred pounds
At sunset [illegible] rain gust. (6th) [illegible] much cooler today. (6th)
39 to 62 degrees Frost in low cold places. Bees very active on Clover, raspberry
honey much richer first gathered [illegible], emptied largely yesterday. 
 (7th) 40 to 66 degrees splendid day. Bees wonderfully active. No honey
from Locusts since storm of 4th. Two good swarms. Secured them
in my way. Emptied largely. Many Queens impregnated. 
 (8th) 44 to 73 degrees these cool nights and not over hot days are just the
thing for honey. Never saw bees do better, honey thick, white clover
superabundant. Emptied largely honey of a very rich consistency. 
Find that very few larvae are displaced by honey emptier, if emptied
before so much sealed as to require uncapping. (9th) 60 to 80 degrees
important. Discard nearly entirely the idea of getting honey
in comb run honey extraction all the time during full honey harvest. 
Gradually comb will have more and more of sealed honey for winter stores. 
Insert occasionally empty frames between full ones to get new worker
comb for brood. Bees having combs emptied and abundances of store
room will not bulge out or be so apt to build drone comb. 
Build up stock nuclei in hives with full sized frames from these
old ones. [illegible] honey bees will probably give three pounds
to one of surplus in this way compared with building on combs. If bees
[illegible] building some comb (to [illegible] their natural instincts)



