to sprinkle water over the tops of the frames, thus gaining much more honey. 
 (26th) 74 to 84 degrees hot with passing showers all around us, [illegible] at noon and PM
her Bees work well. Egyptian Queen arrived from Mr Cary by Mail all
safe, only two workers alive, dark colored, gave her to bees from a swarm
caged. The stock swarm which came out four days ago leaving no Queen
cells, swarmed again today. I gave them six frames of brood, 4 empty frames
and the boxes partly full and partly empty from the mother stock. They had
worked nobly. The mother stock had Queen cells about as [illegible] the
swarm [illegible] the mother stock one. By putting the Queen (caged)
on the swarming box I succeeded in attracting the swarm to it. 
A simple plan for thickening the honey. In the tin reflector back of my
Steward stove have two pans which set on the sliding grates, slide them
out a little and fill. Slide them out a little to empty. Make them to
have a slant to empty, a small plug faucet, etc, to let the honey run out when
properly thickened, draw it off white hot. Plates of the honey as got out by
the extractor in a day become so thick that the honey would candy. 
A small glass box might be possibly used in the sun to do this, but
fire heat could always be got from the cooking stove. Heat might
also be got from kerosene, etc. Important. The honey emptied is not
only thin but must have any noxious qualities of Flowers and poison from
bees brushed off. (27th) 74 to 86 degrees gathering and emptying in full play. Clover very
abundant, very sweet. (28th) 70 to 88 degrees. (29th) 70 to 84 degrees glorious honey day. 
Shower at 4 1/2 PM closed up be work. Have for the last week had some
monster swarms. Important to be on hand to secure Queens. By [illegible]
queen caged on hiving box can detain most of the swarm till all
regulated. Pla of giving the swarm [illegible] part of the brood comb and the honey
boxes works admirably. (30th) 64 to 78 degrees. good shower during the day and
no gathering. This seasonable rain [illegible] the clover work. 
July (1st) 67 to 82 degrees. Heaviest fog I almost ever saw in Oxford. 
Bees did nothing on Clover until about 1 PM. Then more work done than



