FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 25 



look no honey. With the number of empty combs I had on 

 hand, there was nothing to exult over in this increase, especial- 

 ly as the colonies were not in the best condition as to strength. 



WINTER IN CINCINNATI, 



The thousands who have been charmed by the delightful 

 music rendered under the gniidanee of the baton of that prince 

 of conductors, Theodore Thomas, at the May Music Festivals 

 held in successive years in Cincinnati, will have no difficulty in 



Fig. 7 — Tico Carrying with Rope. 



understanding that a congenial although somewhat arduous 

 occupation was afforded me when the managers offered me the 

 position of " official agent," charged with doing the thousand 

 and one things needed to be done to carry out their wishes in 

 preparing for the first of these festivals. I began this work in 

 1872, some six mouths in advance of the time for the Festival, 

 making my abode in Cincinnati, although I still called Marengo 

 my home. In the winter I went back home, put the bees in the 

 cellar December 7, and then locking up cellar and house for the 

 winter I took my wife and child to Cincinnati, from which 

 place we did not return till late the following May. 



