Well, I put my sleuthing skills to work to see what I could find out there on Chas. F Muth, but couldn't locate the exact info you requested. What I did find was very interesting though! The last link - takes you to all the articles Muth wrote for American Bee Journal. Good Luck! Tanya Phillips, Beekeeper Austin, TX "He does a good business who is of slow and steady growth. It requires a good many years to get things handy in an apiary, not only to aquire a quanity of surplus combs in proper shape, besides a good many little things belonging to an apiary, but to also aquire the knowledge of making the proper use of the stock on hand." Those words were read before the Missouri Beekeepers Association January 6, 1877 by Charles Muth. They are as good advice now as they were then. Charles Muth of Cincinnati, one of the biggest sellers of honey in the country in the 19th century, was a close friend of Langstroth. Muth had a large apiary consisting of between 26 and 40 Langstroth hives on the roof of his beekeeping supply store on Central Avenue. He sold his honey in squarish glass jars stopped with cork, now called Muth jars. In the late 1800s, Charles Muth (pronounced /moot/) of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the largest producers of honey in the country, sold his honey in these square jars topped with a cork. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=57&dat=18860910&id=ffYvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EjcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3222,1530550 - this is an awesome news clipping to read from the Sarnia Observer – Sept 10, 1886 Mentions Charles F. Muth wrote to small pamphlets Beekeeping, and How It can be Made Profitable Practical Hints to Beekeepers http://books.google.com/books?id=_sFJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=Chas.+F.+Muth&source=bl&ots=bVCa1dBTc6&sig=GnEliuUJwWsQqAnnXhJ0Rg02gfM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ABOFVM6eDIKfyATE44DYBA&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Chas.%20F.%20Muth&f=false - the publication announcing his death by suicide. http://www.shelbycountyindiana.org/courthouse/wills/will_MuthC.htm - copy of his last will and testament http://books.google.com/books?id=ui05AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA178&lpg=PA178&dq=Chas.+F.+Muth&source=bl&ots=D39kMm9A7g&sig=iAVo85T9YwmpUok_ZM6F7EqttXg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rBSFVK_9L5WcyQSq04G4Bg&ved=0CCAQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Chas.%20F.%20Muth&f=false - another account of Mr. Muth’s passing http://books.google.com/books?id=bLY5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA539&lpg=PA539&dq=Muth+practical+hints+to+beekeepers&source=bl&ots=LzmdfwAfgs&sig=1YZ0Ym5sTpCdvjLRQXtqdqU9Z_0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SxiFVMvHAtD-yQTz3IHYDA&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Muth%20practical%20hints%20to%20beekeepers&f=false – CN White wrote 9 articles on hints to beginners - published in American Bee Journal. http://bees.library.cornell.edu/b/bees/browse/articles/arts-murrayjohn.html *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
