1865 experiments. Corwin bricks (A)
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A beautiful Golden Italian Queen in a colony of black 
please. So shines a go
August 15th. Caged workers with Queen to see if Queen will not be 
better [illegible]. 16th. Most of workers dead, one young alive. 
Shall cage young workers. 
Crickets. August 16th
Experiments with fertile workers. 
July 1st 1881. Nucleus from G. S. Hill with Ligurian sealed drones 
has most of its drones hatched and one or more fertile workers 
saw one insert body and lay eggs, in vacated drone cells, in 
a few 2 eggs, many have won, worker [illegible] so far 
down as only head and thorax above cell, [illegible] 
adjoining cells 2nd a Coleraine Queen hatched last night gone, did not 
see her. Italian Queen cells of their own make not [illegible] 
fertile worker let Queen cells alone. Small nucleus [illegible] 
Queen hatched 4th in [illegible] Queen gone, clipped one [illegible] 
worker as much [illegible] as a fertile Queen. If bright [illegible] 
[illegible] 
[illegible] neighbors. Found in same nucleus a large worker very 
dark, slim, old, head seemed large in proportion to rest of body [illegible]



