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April 13th returned home from washington having secured the reissue of my patent. rain
last night and this am. quince is going out of blossom, full blossom in baltimore the 11th. 
grass looks very promising. 14th cool, windy, bees fly but little, buckeye on uplands
still in blossom. 15th cool am. 16th cool am. 17th cool am. buckeye on uplands
over. 18th [illegible] frost very cool nights, bees get little honey. Kirtland stock has 10
comb with brood, [illegible] of hatched drones. 19th slight frost, wind changed to south, quite warm. 
saw bees yesterday working briskly on wild cherry blossom, very fragrant. locusts on the 
[illegible] just opening. bees get considerable honey. 20th quite warm, hazy, dry. 
put Kirtland stock into 15 frame hive, gave 9 boxes, bees get considerable honey. 
had two handsome queens hatch from #2. taylor queen. shall breed from her. 
like the 15 frame hive for old stocks. locusts in south part of village out [illegible] 
21st sun very red, dry, hot. locusts not secreting so much honey as usual. 
put several stocks into second story hives. [illegible] raspberries several days
earlier in blossom than others. 22nd sun, red, had several beautiful otis queens. 
very dry. locusts in profusion, little honey except at am and pm early 
and late. 23 very hot, dry, windy. a wall of sweet [illegible], bees work 
well early and late. a good queen with nucleus abandoned hive, if we do
not have rain soon, prospect for honey poor, set out delaware [illegible] 
in hot bed today, over 12 days since they were taken out of cellar. a gary
thinks bees from my hives inclined to build new swarms shorter combs than
from old boxes. 24th very dry, warm, bees gather much from locust, but
too dry. 25th very dry and warm, much work on locust, not as much as if
not so dry. two weeks since rain, crops already have suffered much, and a
week more will do incalculable harm, very bad for the white clover. locust
earlier than last year, but clover more backward, dry, hot weather has [illegible] 
and kept back the latter. 26th very sultry, slight shower with thunder and rain [illegible] early in
am, heavy showers passed around us. bees here worked wonderfully on the locust [illegible] have
grown heavy first. several nuclei made with sealed queens left, put in queen in cage 
and then none left. this a good use of queens. heard fluttering noise in hive where
young queens were hatching. 27th slight shower last night heavy thunder and showers
around us, none here, but a moist air. when honey exposed no Italian
came to it, but black bees, when hives opened only black bees try to rob same
as last year, more striking as i have so few black bees. white clover
on [illegible] sides began to blossom freely. if we do not have rain soon prospects 



