. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Our Convention Trip.—According to announcement in the last Journal we visited the following conventions during the past month : Southern Kentucky, Central Kentucky, Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa, Muscatine District, Iowa. On our way to the first, we called on Mr. C. E. Muth, in Cincinnati, and en- joyed a day with him in viewing the city, and calling at the apiary of Mr. J. S. Hill, at Mount Healthy,0. Mr. Hill's apiary is in good order, and his bees were working lively on fruit bloom when we were there. Mr. H. showed us his bottle-feeder, for whi
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Our Convention Trip.—According to announcement in the last Journal we visited the following conventions during the past month : Southern Kentucky, Central Kentucky, Western Illinois and Eastern Iowa, Muscatine District, Iowa. On our way to the first, we called on Mr. C. E. Muth, in Cincinnati, and en- joyed a day with him in viewing the city, and calling at the apiary of Mr. J. S. Hill, at Mount Healthy,0. Mr. Hill's apiary is in good order, and his bees were working lively on fruit bloom when we were there. Mr. H. showed us his bottle-feeder, for which his hives are arranged, for feeding from an in- verted bottle, and reached only from the inside. Also his " swarm-catcher," which is exceedingly handy. We here- with present a cut of it. The bag may. be" made of factory, having a handle of cloth on the inside as'well as the out —making it reversible. With a long wooden pole it will reach any swarm, and when the bees are emptied in front of the hive the handle on the outside gives the apiarist control of it, and when turned inside-out a handle is still on the outside, as it has two of them. We enjoyed a visit with Dr. N. P. Allen of Smith's Grove, Ky., and his pleasant family, and the neighboring bee-keep3rs, who came in and spent the evening with us. At Gainesville, Mr. & night entertained us very agreeably. At Lexington we spent Sunday and Monday with Mr. , who took us to see the celebrated Horse Farm of Major Thomas. The Major en- tertained us right royally, and showed us his fancy horses most willingly, one of the best being imported from Eng- land, and worth $25,000. At Hamilton, 111., we enjoyed a good visit with those excellent apiarists— Ch. Dadant & Son, the Kev. O. Clute, Messrs. Scudder, Palmer and others. At Muscatine, we had a good visit with Mr. Kirk, Major Allen, the Eev. E. L. Briggs and many others who at- tended the convention. We saw some old friends a
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