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Subject:	Re: Price of queens, cost of beekeeping
From:	The M0dem <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2017 09:57:21 -0700
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>
> A few weeks ago I posted a query about the cost of queens, which seems
> high (it always did, I guess). I combed through the old journals (I have
> all of Bee Culture and ABJ going back to 1900) and discovered a curious
> correlation. The price of single queen bees is almost always ten times the
> going wholesale price of honey.
>

That is a very interesting correlation.  I wonder if there are similar
correlations between package prices and honey.
I have heard before that some people valued their hives based upon the
current value of a set amount of honey.

NK

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