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TSE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



July 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



THE W. T. FALCONER MANFG CO. 



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EDITORIAL. 



We have recently had a most enjoy- 

 able visit with Mr. Paul VanSyckle, of 

 Porto Rico. Mr. VanSyckle was for a 

 number of years located in Cuba, where 

 we made his acquaintance and enjoyed 

 his hospitalities. An apiary at San Juan, 

 Porto Rico, constitutes a part of his 

 present industrial interests, of which he 

 expects to soon be in charge again. He 

 relates a story of home markets, good 

 prices, profusion of nectar-yielding 

 flowers and general favorable con- 

 ditions that makes us fairly "home- 

 sick" for a Porto Rican bee ranch. 



DEATH OF CHARLES F. MUTH. 



Mr. Charles F. Muth, senior member 

 of the firm of Chas. F. Muth & Son, 

 Cincinnati, whose advertisement and 

 market quotations appear regularly in 

 The Bee-Keeper, committed suicide by 

 shooting on May 16th. The rash act 

 is thought to have been committed in a 



moment of temporary insanity, result- 

 ing from a sunstroke, which he suf- 

 fered several years ago. 



It is doubtful if there exists in the 

 United States today a commission 

 house that has succeeded in winning 

 the same degree of confidence among 

 the honey-producing fraternity as that 

 of which the name of Chas. F. Muth 

 has been at the head since our earliest 

 recollection. The fact that Mr. Muth 

 was, himself, a bee-keeper, may in part 

 explain the cause of this coniidence. 

 which became the basis of a very ex- 

 tensive and successful bnf=iness, as in- 

 ferred from the reputed extent of his 

 fortune; which is said to have reached 

 hundreds of thousands. 



Deceased was about 65 years of age, 

 and is survived by a wife and six 

 grown children. 



THE SUPPLY TRADE. 



A peculiarity of the bee-keepers' sup- 

 ply trade, is that general business con- 

 ditions of the country are no index of 

 the probable extent of orders for the 

 season. While other factories and mills 

 are booming, the "supply" factory may 

 be idle for lack of orders, and vice 

 versa. 



Last year was a good one for the sup- 

 ply men, though there was no indica- 

 tion that it would be followed by the 

 largest business in the history of the 

 trade; which appears to have been the 

 case. The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. is 

 just now permitted for the first time in 

 three months, to pause for breath; a 

 thing which it would not yet be able 

 to do, had the management not 

 put forth a most determined effort to 

 avoid disappointing their patrons in 

 caring for the unprecedented volume of 

 business, which, judging from the re- 

 ports that have come to us, they have 

 succeeded in doing much more prompt- 

 ly than their competitors; a fact duly 

 appreciated by their customers and 

 noted with gratification by the com- 

 pany. The grand rush of business 



