Warm, bees gathering much, four stocks transferred, newly gathered honey very thin
and very abundant, runs out of cells, makes it more difficult to transfer. 
Took out one sealed Italian to give to a nucleus rearing black queens, took
from them they are unsealed queens, gave them to the stock having three sealed
Italians, also gave some of their brood, want to have the Jelly to use
to make nuclei [illegible] Italian queens in such cells or I shall designate. 
Transferring has been done too much in open air, too many robbers. Hives take
three cuts of water glass in a very short time. If it [illegible] the word and
does not draw too much sun, just what we want. Italian [illegible] that in his
country not so yellow. 8th made a number of small boxes
with comb in frames for nuclei. Drove a powerful stock of black bees,
gave their comb to other hives, also queen to a queenless hive. Made one
both my hives [illegible]. transferred Italian queen with stock into it. She
was a beauty. Italian wants her to lay in these small frames to make
nuclei without any [illegible]. I prefer to cut and only to take
brood comb from one end driving these with smoke to the other. We
made several nuclei with some of her brood. Also made two from sealed
Italian queens. Found one cell wax taken off at base, left that and two
one other. Gave peas of found stock to form the nuclei. Gave more peace to the
Italian queen in her hive. found an Italian queen hatched in one
of my nuclei. First one we have had born here. Could hardly contain myself
for joy. Mr M baldridge and doctor E parmelee were [illegible] I spied her. 
She was pale, but of beautiful size and color. Took out the two sealed
queens so close together that they cannot be separated, and gave them to another
nucleus. 9th rainy, yesterday cloudy and cool. Examined nucleus with two
Italian queen cells so close that they could not be separated, one hatched, light
colored and weak, like the one seen yesterday, cell of other opened on the side,
queen alive, but just so, some claws gone, think bees opened her cell, young
queen not strong enough to do it. As I looked at this nucleus just before dark
and as early this AM as I could see, I did all I could to save both. In
hive which had [illegible] and where she died, found this AM 5 cells
from which queens had hatched or were killed, worked to open and cut out
those cells yesterday, but Mr [illegible] was [illegible], do not blame him
as he had lost count of time, and did not [illegible] importance of cutting
out these queen cells yesterday as I did, opened another hive and found hatched
Italian queen, another ready to hatch, removed hatched one and gave her to



