Royal cells started. [illegible] in my book, she was the newly [illegible]
queen that I rescued from the jaws of death, only to die without laying. 
The other four all have laid some eggs. 27th there are a
few eggs in hive of [illegible], but she was undeniably in poor health. today I
introduced the first queen that came to one of my hives of old pattern. It
had a powerful stock of bees, and drones well advanced. I drove out queen and
all the bees, and gave queen with her colony two the combs, killed the drones
and put drone comb with eggs to chill. This stock to have plenty of drone
comb, bees, etc. And not to be meddled with, sacred to drone raising. All
the four queens are apparently safely introduced to strong stocks. 28th 10 AM
every appearance favorable, weather yesterday and today charming,
bees seem to be doing well on dandelion and cherry. Mr Carey is still
[illegible] on with the transferring of bees to my hives. The splints are first rate. 
Had a [illegible] night and quite unwell today. 29 Sabbath. 30th
stormy. 1st may two nuclei to which in a small
box a few two pieces to each small of Italian brood had
Been given, are rearing each about 6 queens, prefer these
small boxes for queen raising, as I can cut up brood comb
to much better advantage, and very easy to fasten it in the
small frames. 2nd may. Still stormy nothing can be done
With bees. 3rd was away a day from flushing, found
another Italian queen gone, sealed queens in hive but
not of her brood. Was she stolen. I fear it much from
many [illegible]. tonight have put under lock and key
all the Italian stock. Still hope for the best, as I have
now a number of stocks nuclei with young queens and shall
soon have Italian drones. 4th first warm clear up for a
month, splendid day for bees, cherries in blossom, have formed
three stocks, one had nearly half drone comb. Put a large
piece of drone comb to a stock with Italian queen. 5th beautiful
day, four stocks transferred. Bees get much honey from cherry, plum,
[illegible], etc. Stocks with Italian queen are today working very powerfully. 
Examined the nucleus to which I gave Italian brood, four sealed
queens, two so close that they cannot be separated. Shall next week
make three from the one nucleus. [illegible] today very [illegible]. 
6th Sabbath lovely day, bees gather much from blossoms. 7th very



