minutes, opened again, took flight again was gone some 20 or more minutes, piped when
she entered, had [illegible] on her. Kirtland hive has not yet killed off all
it's v drones. drones from the fed hive are o on the wing and are very [illegible]. 
24th pleasant, dry, very. 25th very hot and dry. found an Italian queen in her cage all well 
given to [illegible] of black bees July 25th. on when applicable and when not able
voluntary principle, objections to (spiritual despotism. section ii, page 41)
lifting out a frame found a fertile queen in the hive, raised from larva left by black queen. 
bees then will tolerate, and feed a queen when they have another and a young queen will
[illegible] to meet the drones when there is a caged queen in the hive. finding that a stock 
which has many i think a fertile queen will feed many fertile and unfertile queens. 
i have had nine in cages at once i've today gave two to stocks known to have fertile
queens, queens in cages, some fertile, others not, thus far one accepted which i lost 
they are properly cared for. if this is a law it is one of great importance. 
when a queen becomes fertile in a nucleus she may be removed, and kept in a cage
till wanted, the nucleus having a sealed queen given, and thus another and another may
be reared. any excess of queens at any time may be economized, when an old queen is
removed to be supplanted, she may be kept [illegible] it is [illegible] whether her [illegible] is [illegible] 
queens may be kept on hand for emergencies etc etc. if the law proves to be general i foresee a 
very great [illegible] in advance in queen rearing, for instance i have now a number of queen cells
but all my nuclei have queens. i can remove the queens to cage them and [illegible] the nuclei. 
removed an Italian queen of last year that was reared in a full stock, she is [illegible] larger than
those reared in nuclei. bees very busy on red clover, on opening bees suppose to have been on red 
clover, honey in bladder seems to have a part looking like scum from [illegible] and small
air bladders, a black stock doing nothing. 26th hot and very dry. found a
large quantity of white jelly in a sealed cell in a nucleus, cap had been [illegible]
worm pulled out, does worm eat any after cell is capped. found a queen
at 9: 00 am, with very small thread like [illegible] from a drone of yesterday. 
[illegible] with queens have taken care of fertile and unfertile queens in cages since yesterday. 
some Kirtland drones still left, drones mostly killed off. 29th rain, [illegible] rain, grass 
on roadsides still green here, in many places all dried up. one unfertile queen grew to a 
stock with fertile queen dead in her cage, bees from the first did not notice her, gave them another
this am which they notice. it may be that a stock needs a little education to accustom it
to take care of queens, the others three to one and one to another alright. 28th cooler, pleasant. 
stock that killed the unfertile queen [illegible] another. gave them a fertile queen. 
saw many bees on red clover. stock with young drones worrying at a few drones, 
must remove their queen. she has just put a few more eggs in drone cells where the
drones have just hatched out. the stock has gained in honey far over the little fed them. 
two queens fertile when 9 days old. [illegible] 20 queen gone, her nucleus [illegible] this am 



