The hives I bought had the double projections on the frames to prevent them from 
swinging together etc. A perfect nuisance, as I have found by a two 
month trial, very difficult to [illegible] rapidly, where either the tops 
or uprights of frames are made wholly or partially close fitting so as 
to prevent the spaces between the frames from being regulated at 
will, then the frames cannot be kept somewhat further apart 
to prepare the bees for winter by getting greater thickness of 
honey and more space to cluster, a la mode. DC [illegible]
can they be kept further apart later in the season without great
trouble, and all the special advantages of the close fitting [illegible]
being sacrificed. The L style in my opinion still [illegible]. 
9th cool, cloudy, 70 degrees the highest, [illegible] nothing done by the bees. 
The colony with queen removed for eight days and another given caged 
has just begun to make queen cells. 10th. On the evening of the 8th 
clouds looked like tornado, much rain had fallen the previous night 
and morning, and it grew quite hot and close, these clouds of a 
bright copper color, very high wind, and in many places Washington 
Court House Ohio, great destruction. At W. C. one of the most fearful tornadoes
on record for this state. Today 70 degrees the highest, bees do next to 
nothing. Have over exerted myself and am not so well. On the 
20th of last month had an operation for my piles, the worst one has 
been so changed as to no longer give me trouble. My limbs do not swell 
after much exercise as they have been wont to do ever since my 
Accident on the railroad at Washington. On February last I had quite a 
stroke of paralysis affecting [crossed out: my right] [inserted: left] arm and leg. I soon recovered 
from the shock in the leg, but it was two months or more before I 
had a proper use of my arm. This shock did not seem to affect 
my mind in the least, and when [illegible] my neck began to soften



