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the open air. The bees we saw there iu 

 1882 were beautifully marked, and 

 very docile. 



He has, of late years, been more widely 

 known as a great honey buyer, than as 

 a producer of honey on a large scale. 

 Perhaps no man in the world has bought 

 and sold more honey than he has ; and 

 one very pleasant thing about it is, that 

 in all these large business transactions, 

 all his customers seem to be warm per- 

 sonal friends. 



While at the convention last fall, the 

 subject of the palmetto honey of the 



CHAS. F. MUTH, 



South came up. Friend Muth was called 

 upon to tell what he knew about it. In 

 order to Impress upon us that the honey 

 was of excellent quality, he made the 

 remark that on one shipment which he 

 had engaged for 8 cents a pound, he 

 afterward paid the man 10, because it 

 went so much beyond his expectations. 

 At this point Prof. Cook arose and in- 

 terrupted him. 



"Friend Muth," said he, " I wish to 

 ask just one question right here." 



"Very well, go on," said our jovial 

 friend. 



"I want to know," said friend Cook, 



" if the convention are to understand 

 that this is the kind of a man you are." 



" It is the kind of a man I was that 

 time," was the prompt reply. And we 

 really believe that that is the kind of a 

 man friend M. has always been, and we 

 trust always will be. 



We may say further that Messrs. Chas. 

 F. Muth & Son have been for 33 years 

 in the honey trade, and in the hundreds 

 of thousands of pounds of honey they 

 have handled, not a single instance can 

 be produced where an ounce of adultera- 

 tion was found. Their goods have al- 

 ways been labeled pure, and are sold 

 under a positive guarantee, o'r no sale. 

 The foundation of this now widely 

 known business dates back to 1860, 

 when it was begun in a modest way by 

 Mr. Chas. F. Muth, who, ever since, has 

 contined to direct its annually widening 

 interests. 



In 1886, his son, Mr. Aug. J., was 

 taken into partnership, and under this 

 style of firm name it has since been con- 

 ducted. 



The succeeding paragraphs were re- 

 cently published in a paper in Cincinnati, 

 the home of Messrs. Muth & Son, and 

 show what this firm has accomplished : 



As honey merchants, the firm is cele- 

 brated throughout the length and 

 breadth of the country, and ship their 

 product into every State, and draw for 

 their supplies on nearly all the States 

 and Territories in the Union. While a 

 large portion of their trade is naturally 

 with wholesale grocers, confectioners, 

 tobacconists, other manufacturers and 

 caterers, they also do a large business in 

 the sale of beeswax to manufacturing 

 establishments, the hardware trade and 

 others. Tons of beeswax they manufac- 

 ture in comb foundation annually. 



No man engaged in apiculture is bet- 

 ter posted than Mr. Chas. F. Muth. He 

 has made honey and its production a 

 life-long study. His Indiana farm, util- 

 ized for bee-culture and for stock-rais- 

 ing purposes, comprises an area of 

 nearly 600 acres, occupies one-third of 

 his time, and is in a perfect state 

 of cultivation. It is located in close 

 proximity to Indianapolis, and is said to 

 be a model of progressive ideas, with re- 

 gard to these branches of agriculture. 



This, however, is far from being the 

 sole source of supply. The firm buy 



