. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Published Monthly by the W. T. Palconer Manfg Co. VoL vm. MARCH, J898, No. 3. ^slil The Problem of Marketing. Written for the American Bee-Keeper,\ BY ED. JOLLEY. A^:2HE market is an offspring of de- '<Sj:'j\$ niand. When there is no demand '^^ there is no market. When the demand exceeds the supply of any com- modity, the market price will go up. When the supply is equal to the de- mand, the market will be firm, and the prices good. When the supply exceeds the demand, the tendency of the mar- ket price is downward. When the sup- ply on the mark
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Published Monthly by the W. T. Palconer Manfg Co. VoL vm. MARCH, J898, No. 3. ^slil The Problem of Marketing. Written for the American Bee-Keeper,\ BY ED. JOLLEY. A^:2HE market is an offspring of de- '<Sj:'j\$ niand. When there is no demand '^^ there is no market. When the demand exceeds the supply of any com- modity, the market price will go up. When the supply is equal to the de- mand, the market will be firm, and the prices good. When the supply exceeds the demand, the tendency of the mar- ket price is downward. When the sup- ply on the market is far in excess of the demand, the market is overloaded, glutted, and the effect of a glutted mar- ket is depressing on any commodity. The producers are the ones who suf- fer the consequences of an overloaded market. It is not the commission man, who handles the butter and eggs, cab- bage and potatoes, who loses when the market is gorged. His rates of com- mission remain the same, and the in- creased volume of business, and quick sales arising from the cut in prices, enable him to come out on the safe side. It is not the broker in the exchange who loses when there is a decline in the price of wheat, oil or money. It is the producers of these commodities who suffer. And, really, are they not responsible for the gorge? Is it not, in the majority of cases, through inju- dicious management on the part of producers, that the market is glutted and the price of their product lowered? The market prices that rule the whole country are established in a few of our large cities. If you take a load of produce to your nearest town and ask your merchant what he is paying for such produce, he will scan the columns of his daily and quote to you the market price. If you remon- strate, and tell him there is a general scarcity of such produce, he will quick- ly tell you that it may be scarce here, but there is plenty of it in New York or Chicago, and by taking a car load of it he can get it fr
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