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Country Fairs. 
I have often wondered why those who are troubled 
about selling their honey do not make some effort to 
dispose of it at the combined cattle and pleasure fairs 
so often held about the country. I know from experience 
that if only shown on such days there are to be found 
numerous buyers, who have not hitherto used honey 
simply because they did not know where it was to be 
obtained. Stick on your name and address, and if 
possible, distribute honey leaflets by the hundred, and 
soon you will be wanting to lay out for a much larger 
“output.” 
Fruit and Vegetable Markets. 
I wonder how many of my readers are still in bed and 
asleep, while an immense business is being done in the 
early morning markets of large towns? Probably not one 
in a hundred is astir, and yet what a number of likely 
purchasers of honey the early riser might find if he were 
only there with his commodity all ready for convenient 
handling ! 
Commission Agents. 
Here is an opportunity for those who still say they 
have no chance of disposing of their crop. Why not try 
some one of the many fruit and vegetable salesmen in 
the central markets? There are many reliable business 
men among these, of long standing, who, doubtless, 
would be only too pleased to handle honey if put up in a 
convenient form. There is no delay, and back comes 
your cheque by return of post. 
I came across a genuine cottage honey producer the 
other day, and said he: “I was talking to a gentleman one 
“day, and he says, ‘How about bees, do you sell any 
“¢honey?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ I said, ‘there is no trouble about 
