July 6th hot sticky weather, shower late in PM, bees have worked most 
admirably Clover still good, Linden in full blossom. My shut up nuclei 
had their Liberty, they had begun Royal cells had suffered for want of air, no worms 
in Royal cells. The plan with proper [illegible] will answer, found these indisposed 
to leave the hives, [illegible] that they will adhere. Formed a number of hives with 
sealed Royal cells, by moving and catching up. Most of them appear to have succeeded. 
Bees adhering to the comb [illegible] aid in the catching up process. Put a laying 
Queen into an empty hive on a comb, put it in place of a moved stock, 
did not seem to answer any better. She soon came out of the hive, gave 
her to a colony rearing artificial Queen. This does seem to be common. Can it be that drone eggs 
a few are laid in the worker comb, and that bees rearing artificial Queen raise them while
others do not. An Observatory swarmed yesterday. Queen had been put into one which had 
lost their Queen, she was taken from a common hive, thought that she was lost 
soon after she was given because bees built Royal cells, the sealed over [illegible] 
almost all the bees left in the swarm. Queen taken away in bees put 
back. The small colony around the Queen with imperfect wings [illegible] today. Queen 
gone. Some of the colonies begin to attack the drones. In many to catch up, bees 
seemed to go off and into the adjoining hives have had no [illegible] but when a hive 
second swarm left and tried to enter an old colony, they killed them all at once. 
Is it true that colonies lay Queens in different conditions [illegible] and not are more
Apt to quarrel. Find my com for the most part very straight, when honey is in great 
profusion bees build more coarse com, and more irregular comb. 7th clear hot 
bees still work well. Hives formed by catching up with sealed Royal cell, do not 
appear to have made anything of the Queen, gave them brood comb from which they are 
rearing Queens. Do they not destroy sealed Queens if they are confined ought she 
not to be given when they begin to rear young Queens. still notice drones in worker 
comb where I am rearing artificial Queen. found hives which had been deprived of comb well 
filled again with comb and raising brood taking away comb much better than to
divide up so as to weaken and stop comb building 8th hot dry 9th [illegible] 10th [illegible] 
11th [illegible] 12 [illegible] some days from my apiary. 13th find shower, Clover still 
[illegible] abundant. Sealed Queens given to nuclei have hatched. Have formed
A number of nuclei, appear to be all doing well, some young Queens a good 
while before they had commence laying. Have daily increasing evidence that it is 
not a good plan to weaken hives by dividing, and that if a few combs only are taken 
from time to time they are only weakened in honey and not in brood. 



