out and flew, caught her gently like a fly with a sweep of my hand, very narrow
escape. if had missed the cars she might have been too far gone to have been
x a
revived. on what nice [illegible] events move. thought i could have yet
the race for those few eggs, reared queen, drone layer, impregnated her eggs or
[illegible]. then reared queens from them etc. 19th at 2 pm (19) mr. [illegible] the Italian
bee keeper arrived with the balance of Italian bees from steamer. the way the
bees were put up for the voyage bad. if the passage had been two or three days shorter
most of them might have arrived safe. in some boxes the combs were loose and had
moved about so as to crush bees, one queen was found crushed. two queens with
only a dozen or so of bees, one was [illegible], revived, and seemed fair, but
died in the night. of thirty small colonies, have only 7 living queens. 
 (20) drove a common stock, made two of it, gave an Italian queen to one
in a queen cage. one of the queens given yesterday, was found to be outside of
the hive and unable to walk. she was minus one leg and the claw on another
noticed when i gave her to the bees that she could not travel well on comb. 
indeed the [illegible] off from the comb. mr. [illegible] gave an Italian queen
two a very small number of bees in a small box with honeycomb, took it to a
new place. all quiet last night. Mr. [illegible] does not approve of my mode
often giving Italian queens so soon. he thought one given in this way was
wrong, feared no queen, it did not act like a queenless stock. 22 the last
mentioned hive appears to be alright this am. weather very cool and wet. 
 (23) on saturday the small colony with Italian queen put to it which
Mr. [illegible] made left the hive, queen lost. the same day he made
two more such colonies and gave them many more bees, all right. 
this am, looked [illegible] one i made that he feared was wrong, all
right, beautiful queen, [illegible], good, very good. 
[illegible]. queen very happy. never saw a human being more delighted
says it is the best queen out of 140. the one i saved from death
by starvation. he says that at first he no like my hive, but now
every day, more, more, he no use Italian [illegible] Dzierzon
hive any more. when he came he thought this wild country [illegible]
and the [illegible] utensils. made another small stock to put to it an
Italian queen. i have no doubt but that black bees can always few or many be
made in my way to accept of an Italian queen. 24th cool. bees from massachusetts
around with Mr. Cary and my son, well put up, came safely. 25th cool,
wet. [illegible] with mr. otis. 20th [illegible] in the am. west to new york. on
my return found [illegible] dead, no eggs laid by her, and




