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Let out hemmed her in, when removed she took wing, flew down 
To bees, hemmed her in, put her in cage, an hour later Mr [illegible] 
gave her to bees, says they took her well. If any mistake was made 
it was in not removing these to a stage stand. Bees in Dayton 
have gathered very little honey, very different from hive 29 bees 
are doing very little now. [illegible] dry. 30th eggs brood of Italian queen 
lost on the 22nd are hatching, thus far more appear dark. Very hot 
and dry, bees gather but little honey now. July 1st [illegible] very hot, 
and very dry. 2nd hot and dry. Showers all around us. Bees 
for the last few days gather nothing, much inclined to Rob. All the 
hatching of queens lost and eloped, appear good. 3rd very hot, dry, 
in the night a very powerful rain, several inches. 4th hot, showers 
all around. 5th black queen from Italian, has begun to lay. 
Took out two queen cells from the ones rearing Italians lost and 
[illegible] ones progeny leaving one in each. 5th rain, [illegible], hail. 
One Italian queen has hatched, she is splendidly colored. Her mother which 
was lost was then impregnated by Italian drone. 6th fed my nuclei, in a 
few minutes one stock with Italian queen and many bees which seem 
pure, commenced robbing, while all the other stocks are quiet, 
this very active, see them at the entrance of the different hives, 
an Italian stung me this PM, as I was opening the hive. 7th 
weather so wet and cloudy bees get nothing. An Italian queen hatched last 
night, from the eggs of 1 put two weeks ago to another stock, and 
from which came a very black queen, her worker being part black also. 
This queen quite beautiful, not quite so yellow as some I have had, 
but more so than her mother which came from one of the pure queens. This 
black one and my yellow 1, show that to see a beautiful queen is not 
enough to prove about her mother. How to queen hatch this am from 
the eggs of 1 lost two weeks ago, she looks very yellow like 
her mother, all the workers are yellow, she too then had been with An
Italian drone. It is easy to see how all kinds of mixing can happen. 



