7th very windy, bees working well, but few swarms this season, hives have 
become very heavy. 8th powerful wind, bees working much. Find a 
very windy day hard to form artificial swarms. Bees in one of my [illegible] came out for the 
4th time, double glass in these keep them too warm, they [illegible] do not [illegible] 
[illegible] like so much light. 8th very rainy, a hive has been piping for 2nd 
swarming for four days, weather does not permit them to come out. Yesterday 
convinced me that when hives are [illegible] and near making artificial swarm by moving 
Will be [illegible] with considerable difficulty. 9th very windy, cool, 
weather has been good for honey gathering, but very bad for swarms, have had 
piping in a hive since last Saturday, and these have not yet come out. 
[illegible] a new proof of [illegible] able to make bees cluster by putting their Queen 
on a twig of a tree. Found a hatched Queen in my colony moved off some 
distance. A handful of bees have three young Queens, started, two sealed today. 
Saw the whole process of swarming in an observing hive, bees very inactive, some 
time before they came out they had taken honey from the cells, began to be 
greatly agitated running in circles, increased, a few flew out and 
then back some rushed to the entrance. 10th piping bees did come out yesterday 
found them this am on offense hived them young Queen several times took 
wing they are far more disposed to do so than old ones. A few hours 
after they were hived, they were in great distress, made same noise as when 
Queen lost believe that she went out to be with drones in about half 
an hour all calmed down again. Put about a quart of them in a 
hive with frame containing eggs, they went to work as though all was right. 
Put a frame containing eggs with peas into a hive to shut up for a few 
days to form a nucleus. Weather very cool and wonderfully windy, but 
very little natural swarming, heard piping in the hive which has [illegible] 2 
swarms. 11th swarm abandoned Observatory, they have not worked for 
the last two days. Queen did not move over the comb to lay eggs. 
More than two hours before they swarmed observed them in the cells eating 
out for honey, a short time before they came out saw the Queen 
walking over the comb, not like a satisfied Queen, but few bees 
had flown out, [illegible] mostly played about, noticed some in a 
tumble on the top of the highs to be the first to try to leave, hived 
with them in a practical hive, both this and another swarm would decamp 
under the same circumstances, worked with prodigious zeal as soon as they 



