some nearly hid in a cell. gave yesterday a just hatched queen to a nucleus whose
fertile queen had been [illegible] removed, alright. removed from a fair stock
their fertile queen, gave caged queen with i one end of cage lightly stuffed with r
wool, in two hours bees had got to her, did not seem to hurt her, in a few
hours more opened and found her [illegible], not hurt, caged her again. 24th 48 degrees. 
bees work considerably, nuclear just enough to live. had a very large swarm
from a two story hive, found six or seven queen cells in the front hive, all but
one sealed. all of them are very large and wonderfully crammed with jelly, found
jelly in the base of queen cell of a moderate colony deprived of its queen, [illegible]
to compare with swarming hive. it had much brood but not very much honey. 
linden not yet in blossom. there has been some honeydew upon the beech. 
opened a just hatched queen 2 three nuclei with fertile queens, none of these
molested her, but all noticed her, gave her to a fertile colony whose queen i
had just caged, she was fair for size [illegible] from a very small cell. 
a colony nucleus with fertile queen swarmed out and went back 25th 58 degrees cloudy some 
rain at 3: 00 pm wind east. a European linden at Mr. [illegible] in full blossom
and full of bees. heard of a honeydew not long ago on the beach. some of the
large cells mentioned yesterday had a dople of over half an inch of jelly. an
old, fertile queen caged, given to another colony which took care of its unfertile caged
queen, neglected by the bees. a large vigorous young queen did not open a queen
so until three days after she was hatched. where swarms were forced and old 
stocks moved and caught no adhering bees, much brood has perished. 
a queen whose drones last year were splendid breeds only moderate ones this year 
old queen still in nucleus with two sealed queens. nuclei get just enough
to live. [illegible] a just hatched queen given to a nucleus whose fertile queen
was just caged. removed guide frames from 3 new swarms, one
had a comb right, the others were on the guides. small swarms in a [illegible]
honey season or district should not have guides, at least not until after
a few days work. shall make no more swarms this season unless one
by taking a few combs from several hives. 26th had a splendid rain
last night, some slight showers today. close sticky weather, corn weather,
bee weather. this pm, the bees worked better than before this season. had
a good sized very beautiful 20 queen, from an adjoining cell a small,
poorly colored queen. a [illegible] nucleus queen confined alit on a nucleus
of hive with fertile queen, got it away before many [illegible]. much
of them killed, some after front guide confined. bees when
alarmed, or queen alarmed with such circumstances confine her. see qo



