Kirtland drones still being persecuted. 29th last night noticed a few drones from my colony with late
drones molested. at [illegible] today the bees are busy tumbling them out, most of them just
hatched and could offer but little resistance. o removed queen at once, did not seem v
day the pm to miss her but kept driving out drones, dipped some of them in honey and
gave to a nucleus with queen cells, well received. a colony with half blood Italians strong is
voice of queen. march 27 12 heard the piping of an old queen while confined
in my hand. rapidly filling up empty store cells and those from which
bees have just hatched, red clover, another with Italian queen bees not old enough to gather
doing nothing. red clover honey good for color and flavor. my colony has not [illegible]
a second time, while [illegible] with it has and is covered with bees. as bees here plenty 
of other forage where [illegible] is in blossom, red clover best for Italian bees. 30th cool. 
colony deprived of queen seems to have stopped driving out its drones, is now aware
that its queen is gone. removed fertile queen of a nucleus, and gave queen cell with
queen ready to come out. in less than 15 minutes she came out and was well received
by the bees. one colony with fertile queen allowed several fertile and unfertile caged queens
to starve. others attend to them. this mode of [illegible] queen a very valuable discovery. 
would not bees receive well queen cells when the queen is caged. 3: 00 pm. find the
young queen after several hours all right, in putting into a cage a handsome queen
crushed her with paper stopper, found another good one caught in paper stopper dead. 
in my hive nucleus with fertile queen saw many eggs in a cell as if laid by fertile
worker, also a few, drones capped. colony with late drones ejected a few this
am, can see none ejected this pm. in two nuclei that [illegible] saw the
queens confined by the bees. in two [illegible] nuclei today which had no drones
saw many drones join each one on the tree. Kirtland hive at em more 
busily the last few days. 31st hot. Kirtland hive very busy killing drones. 
two young queens just beginning to lay at the close of the 4th day after
meeting drones. in no instance have i known one to lay before the
4th day. my stock with late drones has only one queen cell started,
and yesterday and today has expelled drones. a stock which had
second story and did not swarm examined. second story full of honey had
been mainly removed. bees not very strong, very many drones, 
hive two full of honey for brood, must change its comb with
a stock strong in bees and brood but weak in stores. 
drones which joined the [illegible] nuclei have been expelled. September
fourth. have had two very cold nights almost frost. bees still feed queens
in cages although they have fertile ones below. find that queen when
liberated from cage are not always well received, surer plan when the weather 
is warm to keep queen in cage till bees can raise no more queens, say ten



