Day. Examined all my nuclei, one has Italian queen laying, tested worker. 2 Italian queen. Three gave 
Italian brood to raise a queen. Four has Italian queen rearing. Five gave brood to rear an has Italian queen. 6 is rearing
Italian queen. Seven rearing Italian queen. 8 has sealed Italian queen from queen number one. All appear to be 
prospering. 20th lovely day, heard HB beecher. 21 raw North Easter, at 
night, Aurora, Thunder lightning much rain. Great tornado in Southwest Ohio. 
22 cloudy, clear, space R working honey, nuclei especially, queen taken with 
several drones from original queen has hatched. Have now 5 queens from the 
same mother, one quite dark compared with the others. Put original mother 
with her bees to hive full of empty calm. Gave her own com to other bees. She 
filled up with brood and honey, other queen cells rearing. She will now have 
room for development, and we can utilize her brood for nuclei, also ran less
risk of bees killing off drones as they sometimes do early. She will also lay a new 
batch of drone eggs. Had [illegible] and [illegible] came and 
two the Italian bees and the practical working of my hive. 23rd formed nuclei 
with Italian queens and brewed for rearing queens to go to Oxford. 24 
opened then in Philadelphia. A fertile queen disappeared. Left at 11: 00 PM 
for Oxford. 28th [illegible] with bees weather very hot. 26th reached 
home at noon. Found a swarm on the tree, another came out in a 
few minutes. [illegible], afterwards they went together. Found that a swarm 
came out and left the 14th [illegible] today, what is a second swarm. 
Gave an Italian queen to some of the swarming bees. Found that 
The queen missing in Philadelphia had gone to a hive [illegible] queen and 
call were killed. Some of the bees getting overheated, queen cells killed. 
27 warm, pleasant Sabbath. 28 found a swarm. Italian queen 
had laid eggs in comb given. All the hatched ones but one fertile 
with common drones, tried my com frame guides, bees left 
the hive, had been much disturbed, put them back. 29th had 
an enormous swarm from 2 1/2 bushel hive. Could not find queen, made 
2, gave fertile Italian queen, 1st in cage, then without, bees confined
her, put again in cage, then let out all appeared well. 
In trying to get other part of swarm to enter here, took wing, many 
went to full [illegible], got an Italian put in cage, bees rushed 
to her, when liberated she was confined, thought I put her in cage 
cannot find her bees acted as though queen, but did not 
[illegible], clustered in front some with other, where did black 
queen go, left it dark bees on each portico, have I lost Italian queen. 




