rearing queens, opened it and found her very closely confined. 20th two queens from
the brood of one sold to Mr. otis, one poor for color, the other very beautiful. removed a queen
cell in which i could hear the queen gnawing i out, the wax off the cocoon and v
gave to a vigorous nucleus at once after removing its fertile queen, examined 
several times, in one hour found the queen hatching, bees were pleased with her. 
shall try if they will take one just ready to crawl out. found a queen cell open,
could find no queen, saw a [illegible] with part of a white larvae, may have
been the queen. saw a young queen very busy gnawing a hole into the side 
of the cell she came from. there was another queen cell nearly mature in the hive,
these were around her but did not seem to help her, she was too busy to leave
when the comb was lifted out, [illegible] on it an hour or two after, had a hole in it. 
a hatched queen put in a cage, a hole made in the side of her cell, think it was
done after she was put in cage and by the bees. a queen had made a small hole in
her cell, opened and let her out, she was not so light as they usually are. took
away a queen from a nucleus, dipped a young unfertile queen in honey scented with 
oil of anise and [illegible] her among them, in an hour examined and bees in great
agitation and queens could not be found. took away queen cells from a nucleus, gave
them a young queen unfertile dipped in honey scented with oil of anise, in a 
short time found her [illegible] of the hive. 21st in a nucleus out of honey
with two queen cells, i found in one cell 7 and in the other 15 larva of the bee
moth, most of them small but some half grown, packed in, the queen dead
and walled up. yesterday a nucleus swarmed, fed it with queen in cage in a
new place, swarmed out today, queen left behind, did not go back but joined another
nucleus. in another nucleus which swarmed out many drones added themselves. 
the black colony which swarmed on sunday has many Italian bees in it, they
joined the swarm and stayed with it after the swarm was returned. 22 some 
showers slight yesterday pm and this am, smaller handsome otis (2). a queen
hatched last night and [illegible] to others. found them just outside the entrance 
it being rainy. had another handsome 49, the last, one hatched next to her very [illegible]. 
i get none now equal to those i got in June, the nuclei are well supplied with honey
but the vigor of the season is gone. 23 am satisfied that the Italian bees do
gather much honey from the second crop of red clover, the [illegible] has hardly any blossoms
on the second crop. have had 9 queens in cages on the frames of one hive, 6 are
fertile, have been in several days, workers in them all dead but the queens
have been well fed by the bees. think that one queen got down among the bees,
put worker alive in a cage, they died in a few hours, shall try whether hives with
a fertile queen will take care of queens, if this plan answers may keep many
more queens on hand for [illegible]. opened a small nucleus with queen about
a week old, she took flight, came [illegible], was gone about [illegible]



