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Young queens. Have found out this season 1852 that bees often fail 
in their first attempt to rear a young queen, they often attempt many 
and rear none, find they do better with a second lot of brood comb. 
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[illegible]. So a queen in a honey box, she laid on a [illegible]
comb, set it in place of old one. New nucleus made by 
putting young queen with some of her bees, into another hive and 
bees from a cluster in another hive, shut up 24 hours [illegible] 
well enough. Find no eggs in extreme [illegible] of New comb. 
15th never saw so many bees working on the red Clover. Many more on 
red then on white. Some with be bread, some only honey. They seem 
to prefer the heads that are nearly out of bloom, can they get down into 
the petals better. Has the long drought and the exceedingly dry spring made 
any change for the [illegible] for bees in the red Clover. So an Italian 
on the red but he was off before I could [illegible] his actions. Brought 
home to very fruitful heavy old hives, each would hold at least two 
bushels. Such large hives have swarmed here well, and have done 
much better in proportion than the small ones. 16th weather cooler after the 
shower, these working well. Made two swarms from old box, alright. 
Made two for others, so no queen in all the form. Put some bees 
To A small nucleus with unfertile queen. They soon swarmed out and 
a lit on tree. 17th bees working exceedingly on white Clover, red neglected. 
Lyndons Justin blossom. Some trees. On a place where cattle have not run, many 
young trees. 18th made two more swarms, from very old boxes. 2nd from each put 
the old box in the place of other box hives moved, if box hive moved has killed 
off its drones, queen from young of Italian number one hatched last night, hardly any yellow. 
[illegible] bees are hatching. Bees in this vicinity have swarmed very little. Locust blossoms 
times the swarms should be Maple. 19th these working pretty well, but weather 
too dry, a slight shower here yesterday evening. Made for doctor [illegible] 
of college [illegible] seven swarms for driving, put most of the [illegible] stocks in 
place of moved strong stocks. All appeared to do well. Made two 



