Anything very choice to introduce, shall [crossed out: send out] [inserted: give] or what I call a 109
scapegoat queen not valued, and if she is not molested shall remove 
her and introduce my choice queen. [illegible] to practice this way with 
imported queens. In one nucleus to which I gave queen born in a cage 
found her all right but I've good queen cells underway. She was 
two days old. In another [illegible] in a cage and liberated at same 
age found her all right and one queen cell underway. 29th 60 to 80 degrees 
30th 64 degrees. In one of the colonies which I had a young queen given 
and where six Royal cells were destroyed. I destroyed 4 more, queen 
all right. The queen of the colony I thought were about to kill their 
drones was not impregnated. Made an unsuccessful flight yesterday. 
Am raising some queens hoping to get them fertilized in October. 
Rain needed now. Another experiment shows that bees drones 
returning from a wedding trip will without food for about an 
hour be unable to fly. October 10th. Returned yesterday from the Dadants 
have now a number of young queens and over 50 drones in one nucleus 
18th a queen born September 26th just laying. 22 days old. queens and 
drones been flying well, weather very fine for mating, but this queen 
the only one of a dozen or more that has mated. 28th. The eggs of 
[illegible] queen workers. She was in a strong nucleus, well fed, and there 
is no reason to suppose that she was tardy in laying after impregnation. 
[illegible] the last of the young queens, she and the others on [illegible] 
[illegible] not to be impregnated. This experience shows how necessary it is to 
have many drones to ensure fertilization. In adding nuclei too 
stocks not the first sign of [illegible] and with Italian bees they stay 
where put. Have fed late, and by keeping the hives close shut 
the stores were sealed. While at Dadants saw a novel 
and good way of stopping or preventing robbing when extracting. 
dried grass put about entrance so that robbers must pass through 
to get into hive, [illegible] bees [illegible] robbers afraid much 
better than [illegible] 6. 72 degrees bees very active. One
stock bringing in white pollen from [illegible] quite actively. 7th 64 to 72 degrees 
made winter passages for all my stocks. They have all but one 



