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■'TliL' nc\t (iiKsiioii : "Wliat were the 

 jK'culiar coiuiiii(.)ns lliai t.nal)lod yon to 

 secure such wonderful results that 

 year?" There was nothing- wonderful 

 al)out the season of 1 '.)()'.). Likely our 

 hees wintered rather hetter than usual ; 

 then we had a fairly good flow of honey 

 from all three of our locations. 



ONLY GOOD YIELDS REPORTED. 



Here comes in an important point 

 that it would be well to take into con- 

 sideration in reports of yields. A man 

 with say three yeards /;; one location 

 gets a good yield of honey, perhaps 

 25,000 lbs. We hear of it through the 

 bee journals. Then for a few xcars we 

 hear nothing from this man. What has 

 happened him? Perhaps his season 

 ■"went wrong" or something else, at any 

 rate his crop is small, we hear nothing 

 from him until another "bumper" is 

 harvested, then big headlines will ap- 

 pear telling of his wonderful crop. This 

 condition does not transpire with us, 

 for with one-third of our bees in 

 Charlevoix Co. 150 miles north, one- 

 third in Gratiot Co., 60 miles south and 



the other third liere near Remus, we do 

 not harvest any extremely large crop, 

 r.either do we have any failures, for 

 some of the three locations yield fairly 

 well each year, thus an average crop 

 is harvested each season. We like the 

 plan very well. 



The last question: "Is there any rea- 

 son why they may not be repeated in 

 the future? if not, why not?" 



It was not any peculiarity of the sea- 

 son of 1909 that caused us to make 

 more out of our bees than at any pre- 

 vious season. All of our locations yield- 

 ed fairly well, not large large though, 

 but was more particularly on account 

 of the bees being in good shape, to 

 gather the honey when it came. We 

 have learned that it is a very poor loca- 

 tion that will not produce paying crops 

 of honey, providing not too many bees 

 are kept in a place. We are paying 

 more and more attention to the number 

 of bees we locate in one place, late 

 years, than ever before. It is import- 

 ant. 



Remus, Mich., December ;!1, 1910. 



Honey Prices— Are They Governed by the Law of 

 Supply and Demand ? 



DR. A. F. BONNEY. 



<*^ WAS very much interested read- 

 Jl ing your comments on "Low 

 Honey Prices," quoting from 

 ]\Ir. Scholl, because I, too, have paid 

 some attention to the matter, and a 

 great deal more to businesses which in- 

 volved, to me. larger sums than honey 

 ever will, and possibly more than honey 

 does to the vast majority of bee-keepers. 

 There is but one possible condition 

 wdiich will enable any man to have per- 

 manently a plethora of orders for goods 

 at a higher price than his competitors 

 quote, and that is that his rival is out 

 of goods. He may for a time get slight- 



ly higher prices than the ruling market 

 as a result of a genial personality, 

 liberal advertising or good salesmanship ; 

 however, all things being equal, the 

 everlasting and universal law of supply 

 and demand will adjust prices in spite 

 of all the producers can do to maintain 

 or raise them. This is so palpable a 

 truth that it needs no fortifying, but I 

 shall call attention to the fact that the 

 Standard Oil Company, happily becom- 

 ing moribund, with, literally, billions of 

 dollars behind it, tried to keep up the 

 price of kerosene in spite of the fact 

 that it had millions of barrels of the 



