[illegible] by worms, queen in same condition, she had not gnawed out was
alive but two feeble 2 [illegible]. a young queen after hive was closed began piping. a hive
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fed has many drone eggs laid. 29th warm, pleasant. a queen in a cell the 
[illegible] and body badly crushed in hatched, a winged effective. a queen impregnated about
2 1/2 pm, just laying at 8 1/2 am of the 4th day, had only two or three eggs. 
Kirtland hive still busy on drones, accomplished little, drones let out are full of honey,
saw bees feed some. a weaker stock got rid of their drones in a few days. 
saw a queen four days old impregnated, 2 1/4 pm, organ very large and white, in 
4 hours all signs of it gone. saw another four days old that was impregnated. 
had a handsome queen from Cary 20, could not see where she came from but after 
a long search pried off the lid of her cell. another cell crushed had [illegible] wings. 
a jar of honey in the window is cracked. Italians lick up the honey, keep guard over it, saw
them [illegible] another bee. just hatched bees are much smaller then when a few
days old. Italians seem to be smaller in proportion, [illegible]. 30th very hot. at 3 1/2 
pm, found a very beautiful queen with large white organ, caught her, she got 
loose and took wing, in a few minutes saw her again in the hive, the white
seemed all gone. 2 queens cell lids off, had [illegible] about half an hour
before, could find neither put a comb with queen cell and bees into a 
nucleus box sat on ground near hive, soon saw a handsome Italian crawling 
up its side. put her into a nucleus box with bees, in an hour or
more found the other queen in the ventilator. this last news nucleus box was set 
on the ground back of the hive, the two queens had left the hive soon after
hatching. found a queen hatched in the nucleus, and only after considerable
poking could i pry off the lid of the cell she hatched from. from the number
of handsome and fair queens from [illegible] daughter i judge i am having most of my 
queens pair with Italian drones. kirkland hives still at it, drones
being let out full of honey, do not think any sensible impression has been made
upon them. when i put any honey in the place where usually given the
bees come by tens of thousands, as soon as used up all quiet in the apiary. 
31st hot. received 12 nuclei from Mr. grey. i am to return him 12 handsome
queens and the boxes and combs, the bees to be mine. grey queen refuses to lay 
in full frame of drone comb, laid freely in a small one, new. shall now
try the rearing of queen in strong nuclei. August 1st hot, pleasant breeze. 
had several Italians hatch in the 7th day after sealing. a swarm settled on a
tree, know not where it came from, queen caged, most of them left, found a cluster
and two queens, besides the caged one, saw but a few Italian in the swarm, most of 
the cluster knotting on the queen Italians. have no doubt that other bees add themselves 



