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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



to those of his parishioners and neigh- 

 bors who may keep bees. 



Among the students found in Mr. D. 

 A. Jones' apiary a few years ago, was a 

 Roman Catholic priest from Muskoka, 

 who came there to learn the art of bee- 

 keeping, that he might instruct his peo- 

 ple, and put them in the way of adding 

 materially to their scanty livelihoods. 

 He realized that though most of that 

 region was unfitted for profitable culti- 

 vation, there was an abundant supply 

 of flora that was going to waste, and 

 that if he could induce the poor people 

 who had settled there to go into bee- 

 keeping, it might very much improve 

 their worldly circumstances. Some of 

 the largest yields of honey we have 

 heard of have been in Muskoka. 



Now, few clergymen may be situated 

 as this priest was, and be able to turn 

 the knowledge acquired to such account 

 for the benefit of those under their 

 charge ; yet all have many opportunities 

 of being helpful to others in this respect, 

 and it affords one a great deal of pleas- 

 ure to do this. He may occasionally 

 lose a little time, and be subjected to a 

 little interruption ; but the happiness 

 derived from being the means of render- 

 ing assistance to others compensates 

 him for it all. One never loses anything 

 by being always ready to help others. 

 In fact, this is one of the great aims of 

 life — " not to look on our own things, 

 but the things also of others." — Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal. 



Bond Head, Ont. 



Pure Honey and C. F. Hntb & Son, 



BEV. L. L. LANGSTBOTH. 



Allow me to give my reasons for be- 

 lieving that pure honey and C. F. Muth 

 & Son have such a natural affinity for 

 each other that they will never be found 

 warring against each other. 



When my patent on movable frames 

 was extended, in 1866, I endeavored to 

 sell brass trade-marks, each having its 

 own number, for 25 cents apiece — one 

 to be put on every new hive made under 

 the extended patent. . Mr. Muth, who 

 was then just beginning his apiarian 

 career, purchased trade-marks for all 

 the hives he made for his own use or for 

 sale, until my patent expired. He had 

 no personal acquaintance with me ; but 

 he believed that I had rights, and was 

 determined to respect them. If the 

 great mass of bee-keepers who were 

 benefited by my hive had done the same 



thing, I should have been well rewarded 

 for my invention. 



I had, therefore, ample proof, more 

 than 20 years ago, from Mr. Muth's 

 dealings with me when I was too poor 

 to defend my legal rights, that he was 

 an honest man ; and his whole course as 

 one of the largest (if not the largest) 

 dealers in the United States in pure 

 honeys, has established for him a repu- 

 tation for fair dealing, of which any 

 business man might justly feel an hon- 

 orable pride 



' For the 25 years I have known Mr. 

 Muth, I have been a frequent visitor at 

 his house, often spending days with him, 

 and have been familiar with all his 

 methods of putting up his honey, which, 

 indeed, have always been open to the 

 honey-world, as his place of business 

 has been a great rendezvous where all 

 bee-keepers might be sure of a hospit- 

 able reception. 



Now, if there had been any attempt 

 to adulterate the goods in which he 

 dealt, how could it possibly have es- 

 caped the notice of the hosts of bee- 

 keepers who were welcome At times to 

 inspect all his processes ; or how could 

 it have failed, sooner or later, to have 

 been exposed by some of his employes ? 



The only adulterants of honey which 

 could ever be profitably used are sugar 

 and glucose ; and as Mr. Muth deals in 

 honey by the hundreds of thousands of 

 pounds, he could not possibly adulterate 

 his honeys with either on so large a 

 scale as to make it profitable, without 

 the kind of business he was carrying on 

 betraying itself by the sugar and glu- 

 cose barrels which he would have been 

 obliged to handle. The idea that Mr. 

 Muth could adulterate, and yet escape 

 detection, is too preposterous to be en- 

 titled to the notice I have already given 

 it. 



It is true Mr. Muth deals largely in 

 all kinds of pure honey — good, bad, and 

 indifferent ; for there is a large demand 

 for all these kinds, even for the darkest 

 and poorest, which is used in the manu- 

 facture of printers' rollers — nothing else 

 being able to compete with it for such a 

 purpose. Tobacconists and brewers are 

 also large consumers of pure dark 

 honeys, while the choicest qualities are 

 purchased for making the famous honey- 

 cakes which keep fresh for nearly six 

 months. A single maker of these cakes 

 buys of the Muths a carload of choice 

 honey— some 20,000 to 24,000 pounds 

 — ever five or six weeks ! 



Enough has been said to show, not 

 only that Mr. Muth is not the style of 



