 (7th) [illegible] high wind, quite cool [illegible]
[illegible] (8th) 50 degrees. Cool [illegible] honey today
[illegible] With all the rain my [illegible]
[illegible] discharged only a little, none six hours after rain (9th) 55 degrees. 
[illegible] wind [illegible] (10th) Hot. Strong [illegible] wind, no
[illegible], a week ago honey coming on [illegible], since rain, very little
Smell to clover [illegible] can barely get enough
[illegible] (11th) 66 to 84 degrees. Rain with thunder in the night. 1. 42 inches. Bees begin to
Get honey today. [illegible] in blossom since 1851 in Philadelphia have noticed that
[illegible] is almost over. The rains of the
[illegible] have covered the roadsides with white clover
Plants but they will not blossom and the [illegible]. English Linden
[illegible] in blossom. (12th) 54 to 74 degrees. Too cool for honey, had to feed nucleus. 
 (13th) [illegible] (14th) [illegible] (15th) [illegible]
Considerable honey. (16th) More honey, bees working much better, white [illegible]
Coming into blossom from late rains. 17th 60 degrees. (23rd) [illegible]
Most pleasant white clover has come on roadsides [illegible]
[illegible] considerable honey but for the
[illegible] white clover will [illegible] came early and [illegible]
[illegible]
[illegible] in June
February 27th, 1879. In the fall of 1874 increasingly ill health compelled
Me to sell all my bees, and believing that the bee poison was very
Injurious to me, I entirely gave up all attention to be culture. 
A large part of the time I have been under the influence of my old head
Trouble. Last September I began to experiment again with a few stocks
At a neighbors, and this winter I have resumed my interest in my favorite
Pursuit, hoping to be able to make the nice directions and experiments
To which my bent of mind inclines me. I have a few colonies in chaff
Lined hives. The winter has been cold and much snow has fallen . In January we 



