young hatched bee, another has been piping now for four days and is not 
hatched out yet. Bees with unhatched Queen more cross than others. 
June 23rd weather quite cool, bees in such weather gather but little from 
the white Clover. Made a new colony by shaking out bees in front of a hive where 
there is stood, and putting their comb in place of a moved stock. Made five 
by lifting out half of the comb with their bees into another hive, and dividing 
space between the two, gave the part without a Queen the sealed young one. Saw
some drones here and there in worker comb in which no artificial Queen more rearing, bees 
do not seem to do much in my [illegible]. June 24th cool, cloudy . New 
hives formed are doing well. 25th windy, cool. 26th warmer. Bees do 
not seem to work so well on the white Clover although it is quite abundant. 
27th hot, bees still do not seem to be doing much work on white Clover. 
28th find to my very great disappointment that many of my small colonies which 
had young Queens seemed to have none were they lost in their [illegible] to meet the 
drones or did they leave from discouragement. Have I been careful enough to 
Keep the hives so situated that they would be pretty sure to find them on their
return. Bees in my [illegible] do not seem to be getting along well. 
29th cloudy. Please do a little more on the Clover. Found yesterday a Queen 
hatched with an imperfect wings. Put an unimpregnated Queen to a hive 
raising young Queens, the first be that touched her stung her so that she soon 
died. Drummed out four colonies, they were in old hives which had very frequently 
been moved to catch swarms, and yet they were prodigiously full of bees, 
after drumming summer 5 minutes until bees had time to fill themselves 
canted the empty hive to an angle of 45 degrees got nearly all the bees out of 
each hive, they were very numerous, in one instance the Queen was among the 
last to go up. Put the old hive in place of another old moved stock, in 
one instance at least found the other bees robbing the old hive, had to take 
it away. Of all the plans for increasing this is one of the very best, easy in my hives. 
Powerful number of drones in some of these old hives. Notice the building of only drone 
com in hives without a Queen. Multiplication of bees colonies ought to cease about the 
time that drones are being killed off. Colonies rearing Queens ought not to be allowed 
to build comb, hive should be full of comb if bees are numerous. In all the 
many hives had but little quarrelling until within the last few days, when 
bees were gathering from the Tulip tree could [illegible] get them to notice comb with 
honey, now they are eager for it. Must be more careful to guard against robbing. 



