may 16th 1861
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rear ventilator. if the drop bottom board is used then the rear
ventilator is not needed, as filth can be got rid of
without it, and air can be given to any desirable extent. 
April 10th 1862 if the efficacy is owing to of why many 
[illegible] compound not [illegible] answer equally well. 
August 10 1862 away for several days, slight rain day before yesterday, and weather
see w w now much cooler. found queen confined a few days ago safe and
laying in another nucleus. in new drone comb with eggs 8 worms the stock that confined
her had started a large number of queen cells, some quite advanced, they had
plenty of worker brood but not in new comb. a young queen takes well to
laying in drone comb, fills frame after frame, lays readily when comb out of hive, 
vigorous in laying in worker cells, a perfect queen. am [illegible] those combs 
full of drone brood among my nuclei. the large stock fed for drones has plenty hatched 
and queen is laying more eggs in their cells. expect now to have plenty of Italian drones,
most of my stocks still retain their drones. kirkland has them. 17th last am,
a swarm at 2: 00 pm, an old stock from which [illegible] queen was removed and no Italian queen
given, many queens had hatched, much jelly in the [illegible] cells. [illegible] it. 
many drones Italian joined the swarm while on the tree. it had no Italian drones 
18th on a large piece of drone comb in a nucleus abundance of bee bread. bees are gathering
more honey, get more as they did the Italians two years ago. buy a strong
[illegible] the drone [illegible] has placed [illegible] it can be made to [illegible]
beyond the penis and to [illegible] one that pops. had one in my hand to pop'
organ first came out as neat as usual with no noise. then with a noise it
opened the bow like shape, when i put it in spirits the penis a clot of the
semen came off from it. i believe that the part first opening is inserted in the [illegible]
and then the other part is at it was injected further. i got some [illegible] queen from
c20. can tell the bees which have pure blood in them, the yellow a [illegible]
chocolate color, more so than the pure bees. if the organ does not pop, the sac
does not open i think to let out semen. 19th warmer, very dry, see bees on red clover. 
Italian and Italian blood, keep on small [illegible], there [illegible] most of the [illegible] dried up,
some buckwheat smell about the hive. gave 2 queen cells to nuclei from which the queens
had just been taken, hatched in a few hours and queens well received. the kirkland
stock fast getting rid of their drones. they are in earnest now. i find that when i open the
base of an immature queen bees generally close it up and it hatches. have [illegible] evidence that the
most of my queens are now pairing with Italian drones. a queen with bees let [illegible] a nucleus 



