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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Attg. 15 



CHAS. H. WEBER. 



ufacturers are represented in that city, and 

 the competition, I sh.uld judge, is at times 

 quite spirited. Nowhere else in^ Ohio can 

 we find so many bee keepers who are so 

 actively interested in the pursuit. Among 

 the number are scores of professional men 

 as well as those who are engaged in the 

 business for the money they can get out of 

 it. But among all these people no one is 

 more actively interested in bees than Mr. 

 C. H. W. Weber, who for some years work- 

 ed with the late Charles F. Muth; and 

 when the latter's interests, after his death, 

 were sold, Mr. Weber purchased the busi- 

 ness and the good will. 



I did not realize that Mr. Weber was so 

 much interested in bees until I met him at 

 ♦ he Denver convention ^ome two years ago. 

 well do I remember how he fired question 

 after question at me after we had retired 

 for the night at the hotel. Every thing con- 

 nected with the discussions of the day pre- 

 • vious seemed to interest him to such an ex- 

 tent that he desired to go to the very bottom 

 of it if it were possible. Just about as I 

 would be dropping off to sleep our friend 

 would rise up in bed and ask another ques- 

 tion. I do not remember now just what 

 those questions were, except that our friend 

 was so thoroughly interested he could not 



go to sleep. Some time about midnight, 

 and after I was asleep for the night, there 

 was a fearful crash. On striking a light 

 my brother and I found that Mr. Weber 

 and his friend in the other bed were lying 

 heads downward, for the head of the bed 

 had let go. I can not imagine what broke 

 it down unless our friend was so over- 

 wrought with interest that he could not go 

 to sleep, and during the process of wig- 

 gling and looking over to see if I were really 

 asleep, somehow loosened the bed fasten- 

 ings. 



Oh, yes! I do remember that Mr. W. was 

 working on the subject of formaldehyde as 

 a cure for foul brood. He had read and 

 studied every thing he could get hold of, 

 both in the German and English languages, 

 and was fairly bubbling over with anima- 

 tion. 



C. H. W. Weber was born April 21, 1844, 

 in Lemfoerde, Hanover, Germany. When 

 he was a little over fourteen years old, and 

 after a good schooling, he went to Bremen 

 and hired out to a drygoods firm to wcrk 

 for five years, working for nothing and 

 boarding himself. Before he had finished 

 his allotted time he had done so well he 

 was employed as a salesman, and from 

 that time was paid a salary. Four years 

 after that he made a trip to America, land- 

 ing in Cincinnati, and finally accepted a 

 position with the late Charles F. Muth as a 

 clerk. At that time Mr. Muth had only 

 three colonies of bees, in old-style box 

 hives. These were transferred to modern 

 hives, Mr. Weber assisting. During Mr. 

 Muth's early experience with bees Mr. 

 Weber was a constant attendant. He final- 

 ly went inio business for himself, and in 

 1872 he married. As a result of this union 



EMMA WEBER. 



