12th gave Italian and common bees to professor [illegible] of cambridge for examination. 
13th left for greenfield. 15th preached to the dear people in [illegible]. 
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14th. very cold, severe freeze at night. 16th a little warmer. 17th left for
[illegible] 18 spent day in new york. [illegible] for arrival of steamer [illegible] with
further importation of Italian bees. left new york for flushing at 6: 00 pm. mr
[illegible] received a [illegible] stating that the [illegible] would be at the dock
at 9: 00 pm, we took a private conveyance to hunters point, thence to
new york. reached steamer at 10: 00 pm. the [illegible] Italian with the
these reports poorly of them. had 27 in small [illegible], all put up wrong,
two many saw clefts to let in light and keep bees in a constant [illegible]
two said to have the best queens from 140 queens were kept by the
beekeeper in his constant charge, weather bad, headwinds, bees
sick, last two days many died. the two above spoken of, one
lovely, the other sick as the Italian said. tried to get them off
that night to keep out of damp [illegible] air, could not get a permit
for them to leave. returned with spent the night with Mr. [illegible] at the
aster house, went to bed at 1 am, rose � before 5. bees in my
head all night, went to steamer, got my two stocks, started
for grand street ferry, rode up in brooklyn side to hunters point, came
within a few minutes of missing the flushing cars. one stock gone
no [illegible] it before breakfast, all seemed dead
starved, not sick. laid them out in paper, a few came to,
greedily took honey, found queen alive, greedily took honey, put her
in queen cage with some other bees, soon became very lively. open
the other box, bees lively, flew at once, the weather charming for this
found their queen well, her [illegible] seem poor. drummed two stocks
returned queen of 1st to her hive, fit it in a new place, gave
number one Italian to the bees when they missed their own in a cage. 
[illegible] them at once. did not see queen, of 2nd drummed stock
think she did not come out, when they missed her gave Italian queen queen in a
cage, [illegible] them, moved old stock to a new place. set out the queens
and they were well received. queen #2 has bad [illegible] to her feet. 
[illegible] for her. examined comb in box, no 1, had a small piece of new
comb and six or eight eggs in it, no honey, no 2 had superabundance
of honey, very few dead bees. queen of 1st Italian stock transferred has
begun to lay, bees have been fed, have built new comb, saw her on this. 
in giving queen no 2, used [illegible] queen cage, [illegible] gone, she got




