. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, i Anu^rican Hee Journal or 29,900 percent of profit on capital invested. That's ever so much ahead of 34% percent he got in the honey- business. But while he makes a profit of $299 with his ax, he makes a profit of $490 with his two apiaries, to say nothing about his other apiaries, so he is not likely to desert his bees and take to the woods. Indeed some such view was plainly in his mind, for in closing he says: "I think this statement would be incom- plete, unless I told what my son would often say, while working this yard. The express
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. January, i Anu^rican Hee Journal or 29,900 percent of profit on capital invested. That's ever so much ahead of 34% percent he got in the honey- business. But while he makes a profit of $299 with his ax, he makes a profit of $490 with his two apiaries, to say nothing about his other apiaries, so he is not likely to desert his bees and take to the woods. Indeed some such view was plainly in his mind, for in closing he says: "I think this statement would be incom- plete, unless I told what my son would often say, while working this yard. The expression would be something as fol- lows: T could have worked 5 yards for extracted honey with the same labor it took to produce this crop of 2300 poun<is of comb honey.'" Without saying positively what is the very best way to figure out the com- parative profitableness of those two apiaries, it may not be out of place to say that one way would be to make a comparison on the basis of the labor involved. Leaving the item of "work" out of the accounts, the profits on the comb- honey apiary are $, and on the extracting apiary $ That seems to put comb honey $ to the good. But note that "work" on comb honey is charged at $75, and on extracted $25 —3 times as much work in one case as in the other. To make an even com- parison, put 3 times as much work on the extracted business, and you will have a profit of 3 times $ or $ against $ for the same amount of work at comb honey. Lookod at in that way, extracted honey seems to be more than 2% times as profitable as extracted. Neither does that settle the matter conclusively, by any means, for other factors may come into the problem not here considered. The answer to the question while always interesting, will probably always have to be settled for each one by Oliscellaheou Haws-items Reports on Bees and the Honey Crop We have received quite a number of these reports, wh
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