30th very warm PM slight shower. Moved to the hive which was being robbed 
About half a mile. All the operations of yesterday seem to have been 
successful. Drove out four more colonies in each instance found the 
Queen sometimes she went up very soon, at others lingered among the 
last. Put part of one swarm into an observing hive, put the balance without 
their Queen into the hive they came from. The mass of those put into the 
[illegible] hive adhere, darkened it, and shall keep it dark for some days. 
After driving one put the mass of the bees with Queen into a new hive 
on a new spot, others back to their old hive to raise a Queen. after 
driving another carried the mass with Queen half a mile off, put the rest 
back on the old spot. The Queen which I kept for a long time in my 
closed hand bit me quite hard, she was so intent on this that when 
I opened my hand she would not desist. July 1st very warm, bees work 
much better on the Clover, seem to be at work on the basswood. Have driven 
two more colonies, find bees very much disposed to Rob the old hive 
from which the great mass of the bees have been driven. Find to my exceedingly 
great delight that my small colonies made by moving and giving sealed Queen 
have not lost their Queens. 11 out of 12 have succeeded. Found a 
Queen with less than two dozen bees around her. Put bees from a driven
swarm to form hives with comb containing eggs of workers, two to be 
left in my own apiary, two to be moved half a mile, find that when
bees are shaken down they should be sprinkled if we wish to prevent them from 
taking wing, find the [illegible] of my [illegible] in preventing robbing, saw drones in a 
glass hive which was [illegible] feeding themselves like the others before they ascended. 
July 2nd cool and windy, bees almost entirely idle have found another Queen with 
a handful laying. The nucleus system can be made to answer. The bees in the four 
nuclei of yesterday having their Liberty all dispersed. Must be moved or confined 
or brought from a distant colony to form nuclei. Formed 5 nuclei by shutting 
up with brood. July 3rd bees work a little better. Found drone comb in a 
small colony, they were queenless. Queen was hurt in hiving, she laid 
no eggs, and yet they were exceedingly industrious in working, com nearly all 
drone comb, had built the beginnings of Royal cells, although they had no eggs. 
Gave them worker brood in tumblers which they most joyfully accepted. 
July 4th Sabbath July 5th drove several colonies with success, found 
a Queen with defect, leg, it was withered, had one like it last year. 



