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man out of which adulterators are made, 

 but, apart from all motives of honor and 

 honesty, he is a man of too much good 

 business-sense to engage in falsifications 

 which, sooner or later, would surely be 

 detected, and would end in the ruin of 

 his extensive business. 



But may not Mr. Muth be imposed 

 upon by those who have adulterated 

 honeys for sale, and thus become an in- 

 nocent agent for imposing their goods 

 upon the public ? Now, as the only way 

 in which honey can be profitably adul- 

 terated is by using sugar or glucose, 

 such fraudulent mixtures can never be 

 imposed upon such experts as Charles 

 F. Muth & Son. Before I lost my ex- 

 quisite sense of taste and smell, I could 

 always recognize any honey with which 

 I had once become acquainted. 



For the last four years Mr. Muth has 

 associated with himself in business his 

 son, Augustus G., who has been with 

 him as an assistant ever since he has 

 dealt in honey, and who shares the same 

 honorable instincts with his father. 



Those who are personally acquainted 

 with C. F. Muth need no endorsement of 

 his honesty by me or any one else ; but 

 as his good name has been called in 

 question by those who do not know him, 

 I have felt that it was my duty which I 

 owed to my tried friend of so many 

 years, and to the bee-keeping public, to 

 speak as I have. 



If any honey bearing the label of C. 

 F. Muth & Son has been found to be 

 adulterated, I believe that either some 

 mistake has been made in the analysis, 

 or else it has been tampered with by 

 dishonest parties. Dr. C. C. Miller is 

 confident that Mr. Muth's labels have 

 been counterfeited by dealers who 

 wished to dispose of their bogus honey 

 on the strength of his good name. 



I close as I began — pure honey and 

 Charles F. Muth & Son are words and 

 things which have always gone together, 

 and which I hope will very soon, with 

 some suitable device which cannot be 

 easily counterfeited, become the legal 

 trade-mark of a firm which has done so 

 much for the bee-keepers of this coun- 

 try by affording a cash market for their 

 products, and by setting their faces as a 

 flint against all adulterators and adul- 

 terations. 



Dayton, O., Aug. 25, 1892. 



[We think that no one who knows 

 Messrs. Muth & Son need be told that 

 they are honest men, and would not 

 stoop to the crime of adulteration of 

 honey, or anything else ; and the only 



excuse we offer for publishing the fore- 

 going article, is because of the reflection 

 that has recently been cast upon their 

 fair name by reason of the " Report on 

 Honey " issued by the Government un- 

 der the direction of Prof. H. W. Wiley. 

 —Eds.] 



CONVENTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



Oct. 4.— Capital, at Springfield, Ills. 



C. E. Yocom, Sec, Sherman, Ills. 



Oct. 7.— Utah, at Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 John C. Swaner, Sec, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Oct. 18, 19.— Illinois State, at Chicago, Ills. 

 Jas. A. Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, Ills. 



Nov. 28.— Allegany Co., at Angelica, N. Y. 

 H. L. Dewight, Sec, Friendship, N. Y. 



1893. 



Jan. 13, 14.— S.W.Wisconsin, at Boscobel.Wis. 

 Edwin Pike, Pres., Boscobel, Wis. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editors. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Secor..Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary— W. Z. Hutchinson.... Flint, Mich 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon . .Dowagiac, Mich. 

 Sec'y and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



SEk£££? X 3t 



Reports, Prospects, Etc. 



^~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



Bee-Keeping in State of Washington. 



I notice by reference to the different 

 bee-papers that the great majority of 

 bee-keepers are short of surplus honey. 

 Surplus in this part of the country is not 

 very plentiful, mostly on account of the 

 late, backward spring. 



I notice on page 303, that some of 

 our brethren have somewhat the same 

 kind of people to deal with that we have, 

 viz. : to get the best honey for the 



