days, and destroy all their queen cells, some 12 hours before letting queen out. caged a
fertile queen in a nucleus and gave them nearly mature queen, she has [illegible] and
is v well received, queen in cage alright u cage down between com. it is not the
province of the worker to destroy queen cells. will welcome a queen hatched among them even
when their own queen is caged. will feed caged queens especially [illegible] even when their
own fertile queen is at liberty. young queen will go to meet drones and lay even when
one or more caged queens are in the hive. 5th hot, very dry. early in am bees
bring in much bee bread. large stock with fertile queen that neglected caged
queen feeds one now. 9th very dry, had a small shower on the 7th, soon
dry. queen with colony where fertile queen was caged swarmed out with bees. 
put a fertile queen in cage, a sealed queen almost touching her cage hatched 
and well protected by bees. in a large colony with [illegible] started a
number of queen cells, found them very full of royal jelly, several queens
reared in a large colony quite large, and it seems to me stronger then
those raised in nuclei. December 1st. interruption from usual cause. stocks as a
general rule have too much honey, too few bees, were lost in hard cider mills. 
have had straw bundles for several days over the frames of a colony, bees are next to the
straw, well in other [illegible] hives they lie low. think that the straw bundles can be made to do 
excellent service in wintering bees. heavy honeydew from beech trees as late as the middle of October 
bees worked strongly on it in the am. queens were fed in cages until late in October. 29th
the weather has much of this month been very mild. thermometer one day 60 degrees. bees have been
in vigorous flight. examined two small stocks today with drone laying queens, they had
sealed brood in November, have drones and sealed and unsealed drones and eggs. a large stock
had much surface on central comb with sealed worker brood. April 13th 1863 suspense 
from usual cause and from [illegible]. winter very wet and mild, but much snow,
bees flew frequently, many died apparently of dysentery, there was much late
unsealed honey. the best stocks are those which had double stories, on the
whole bees have wintered finely. march was cold, much rye flour taken
on pleasant days. on April 10th, pollen gathered, bees still greedy for flour, on
11th very hot and some honey brought in. today found eggs in drone comb of several
strong stocks. weather for the last few weeks very dry, many nights so cold that
the ground has frozen. 18th hardly a drop of rain, weather pleasant, bees very greedy for
flour, peach trees in blossom in hamilton, bees get next to no pollen, rain very much needed. 
19th a little rain, cleared up pleasant. 20th white frost, 38 degrees. bees work on peach blossoms, pollen
still scarce, rain much needed. 22 very warm, rained hard in the night. 23 cool. rain. 24 cool. 
25 cool, pleasant, sugar maples in blossom, bees work well. 26th warm, pleasant. 27 cherry trees in blossom,
very warm. 28 warm rain. 29 cloudy, cool. 30 clear warm. may 1 warm, clear. 2 very warm. 
3 showery, cool. 4 warm, pleasant. 5 rainy, cool. 6 cool, cloudy. 7 showery. 8 [illegible] 11, 12 very warm. 



