 (8th) Very warm, late in PM yesterday, showers. Emptied about one hundred pounds yesterday. Bees very
active on Linden. Much rain has fallen today, [illegible] made. Glorious for
corn, pastures, etc. (9th) magnificent harvest day, bees very active on Clover And Linden
Clover retains its sweetness well. Put two nearly mature Queen cells in a paper
box laid in sun, without any bees. One hatched and had begun to gnaw the
other. (10th) 76 to 88 degrees bees quite active on Clover and Linden. Received
an Egyptian Queen from Mr Cary. [illegible] her in mailing box. 
 (11th) 79 to 88 degrees bees doing well on Clover and Linden but not
accumulating as fast as in the best of the season. Important. 
The white Clover begins to fail in sweetness sometime before
the blossoms fail to be super abundant for bees. There are now
blossoms enough for ten stocks where I have one and yet there
is a very great decline in the yield of honey from this source. 
The [illegible] Clover did not remain in rich [illegible] near as long as the
white. Linden pretty well gone. Some few stocks (one in [illegible])
have worked well on Linden but the main apiary has not. 
 (12th) 70 degrees good day for bees. Honey emptied today has the Linden flavor. 
 (13th) 74 to 88 degrees important. Some stocks are much better workers
than others. Would it not be well to breed from such and try the result. 
 (14th) 78 to 90 degrees hottest day of the season. In emptying in the open air bees are
very troublesome, remedied in part by keeping barrel covered except when
putting in and taking out combs. Attempt to Rob but do not like black
bees succeed. Time now to stop emptying in open air. Very important. 
Italian bees will not as a rule work to advantage in boxes arranged in
a manner perfectly acceptable to black bees. Today removed full set of
boxes, 21, from a strong stock. All but three had the bottoms on and were
set [illegible] strips. Two of three were at the outside of the middle
row, the other about central. These three filled the others empty. The
13 frames almost every cell full of sealed honey or brood. Very evident that they
would have filled all or nearly all the boxes if they had no bottom. 



