results, she hid in comb, and i shut all up. found no lame queen, the other gnawing into a
sealed queen sell newly mature and yet she had been three days in the hive. wind east
weather much warmer but very little honey o gathered yet. opened a hive w
with good pattern comb that was quite weak in spring, nearly all the combs
are now full of brood. truly it pays to have such combs, these are not now
getting enough honey to build comb. if honey comes abundant they
will do well, and swarm well, swarms will be generally quite late. 
found a nucleus with caged queen building worker comb. shall cage some
queens as soon as they are impregnated and liberate on close of 3rd day to see
if they will lay as soon as if not caged. 10th 50 degrees. wind still east and
bees now 10: 00 am doing next to nothing. i shall test a new plan for
forming nuclei, see, interpaged bee book. 11th 60 degrees. wind east. a very good
rain last night. am, too cloudy for bees, work on raspberries. formed two
more nuclei with queen of hive from which bees taken, returned queen taken yesterday
with a nucleus to her hive, bees [illegible] a great spread of brood. pm. it has
cleared off warm and the clover is sweet. indications now that the bees will
gather freely. weather has not been favorable for testing the new method of forming
nuclei. cage fertile queen, gave bees nearly mature queen cell. let out queen
and remove or cage young one. if bees will receive young caged one, she might be
set at liberty the old one being caged when five or six days old, say a week,
to meet the drones and then caged or removed. two many [illegible] 12th 54 degrees
made a fair swarm to try my frames with brood tops. removed a caged fertile queen to
allow unfertile one hatched since she was caged to take her place. in laying down
the cage she escaped. the nucleus had a white entrance [illegible]
stood in had the same [illegible] 4 box nuclei with another nucleus having unfertile
queen i put a twig of evergreen over the entrance. in a short time i found
this queen with bees knotted upon her at another nucleus some yards off nearly
in a direct line back with a white block of the same kind. [illegible]
a number of sealed queens built in [illegible] this very convenient
caged an old queen, gave nucleus sealed queen, also a comb with one
queen nearly ready to seal over, another small side of cell crushed to see
if without any delay they will proceed to rear these queens two hours later
they have capped over the queen cell and removed the damaged one. as this nucleus
has an old queen not very fertile. i shall test this point with them, but i am of opinion that
bees will take care of queen cells until the queen meddles with them. shall offer
a nucleus with fertile queen a damaged queen cell, later they mended the queen cell and when
broken a second time. when looked at next much of the jelly removed, queen on the comb. 
she soon returned to the cell, looked into it again and again circled round it [illegible]
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