to the swarm. caught a drone, organ popped out with a decided report like a small
popgun, appearance very different from the organ ordinarily seen when drone is pressed 
beyond the penis a small transparent white bladder as though full of air, beyond this
the same white mass seen in queen vulva when she has just returned, at the
end of this and rather under it to hornlike appendages, as though to hold fast, it is now 
easy to see how, readily the white mass would [illegible] from the penis. have [illegible]
the drone in diluted alcohol to have a minute examination. just before dark
i scooped up a bowl outlying bees and poured them out before the 
nuclei rearing queen, 2 [illegible], they went in quietly. second hot. nucleus
with just fertile queen swarmed out, queen lost. kirkland hive still at it
in same moderate way. third hot, another nucleus with fertile queen
gone, the queen [illegible] laid many eggs comma judge that she was defective 
4th a young queen found before her hive with defective wings. 5th a beautiful queen
just hatched gave to a nucleus rearing queens killed. another queen [illegible]
within six hours of the fourth day [illegible] up. a hive to which sealed queen
had been given in place of its black 1, through a large swarm. not one
egg in a queen cell, usual number left [illegible] this caged because of
the fertility of their queen. found that a fertile worker had laid many
eggs in the cells, for a few in one etc, where a normal queen had brood 
some nearly ready to seal over. eggs mostly fed in upper and side
cells such as ones had honey and which a young queen usually passes
by. yesterday am had a beautiful shower, last night heavy wind,
thunder and copious rain. a precious rain. today [illegible] for
[illegible] 6th close weather, more rain last night, great
corn weather. had an extra queen from my otis queen. sent off my 49 queen,
as i do not want more queens from her in my apiary, have had some very
beautiful queens from her, but too many from one. a queen did not begin to
lay until nearly five days had elapsed. kirkland hive still at one. 9th very hot. 
have put a queen gate upon the nucleus with my otis queen. find queens in the
nuclei more willing to lay drone eggs. had a hive robbed, early in July, plenty
of bees left, bees have up to this time got there [illegible] i think, saw bees
on red clover. 8th very hot, but pleasant breeze. have fed and drone comb put 
in centrally has abundance of drone brood. a queen 2 weeks old has not yet
begun to lay, can fly. 9th hot, beautiful shower. a beautiful fertile
queen gone from a nucleus, has had come [illegible] taken with all her eggs, must
have fallen when they swarmed out. another very beautiful otis. a fertile queen
confined over 48 hours attacked by bees knotting upon her. a queen that [illegible] had gnawed
into cell of immature queen, had not touched cell of another just ready to hatch
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