brood, no eggs, queen [illegible] layer. these queens were impregnated when only four days old. saw a queen
flying some minutes before her hive before she entered, only 60 hours old, examined her but saw no
signs u of impregnation, yet bees acted towards her as a though she might be fertile. time of young queens
making their excursions and laying eggs after [illegible] them variable. set out an Italian queen after
less than a day [illegible] the bees happened her in some, so they did one of her [illegible]. had a good swarm. 
 (13) made June 12th from old gum. after 6: 00 pm. hived a few days ago
2 full swarms, some [illegible], bees have made only a few small combs, would
come out into portico, driven in would keep coming out. drone [illegible] on to keep in
black drones. this pm, all out in portico, opened, a great stench, about half a pint
of dead bees, all in one corner, bees could not get them out, smell forced them out, 
removed them, and bees have gone in well, have a good queen. July 6th very hot 97 degrees. 
one heavy comb in second story loosened and fell down, clamped cover with [illegible] off. 
queen seen out yesterday inspected today. found brewed eggs in form of the hive examined 
14th made June 13th from Mr. carey large box. yesterday pm, early this am, [illegible]
not until pm. [illegible] over three days before [illegible] lead, one form. most of my queens
seem to be cropped can account for this only on the supposition of long examinations. 7th 
took away a fertile queen from a nucleus for about half an hour, returned her, in
an hour after found her imprisoned by her bees, had put her in a cage in which a short
time before [illegible] queens had been put on i took them from nuclei to fasten comb for [illegible] 
them off. after removing a fertile queen from a nucleus gave a queen cell from which the young queen 
hatched in a few hours, she was not disturbed. so after sunset many drones collected
15 made June 13th from one bought of Mr. cross, has no queen, had from glass hive,
gave a black queen. together on alighting board of a hive. this looks ominous
and is a notice given to look out to retain best drones. 8th very hot, but fresh breeze,
showers passed around us, only a slight one here, bees have worked well. yesterday saw the
parts of drone 24 hours after queen was impregnated. examined, where queen was impregnated 
some hours over 2 days, no eggs. a small nucleus with [illegible] queen cell confined a young
queen offered to them. when 2 queens had hatched one was on the bottom of hive. those drones
16 June 20th from #1 [illegible] swarm. are being expelled today. find that
the plan of putting the boxes on the second story does not work well, bees do not incline to
enter them. 9th very hot. found another comb in upper story partly fallen from
heat, straw or dried grass out to be put on top of these hives in such hot weather. 
found an Italian killing a number of bees, all were hybrids, dark with ragged
wings, had honey in them. the stock had a comb melted and honey ran out of hive,
could there be robbers that got a taste then. an Italian scented honey in a
comb in an empty hive. saw a few drones molested in my [illegible] hive. 
do not think the linden has blossomed much this year or yielded much honey, 



