CHAPTER XVIII 



SELLING THE PRODUCE 



THERE are a great many bee-keepers, mostly 

 those who have small apiaries, to whom the sell- 

 ing of their produce at remunerative prices is an 

 annual source of difficulty. These men, living 

 as they do often in good but remote honey dis- 

 tricts, can produce honey much more easily than 

 they can dispose of it, while others having prac- 

 tically an unlimited demand are at their wits' end 

 to supply their customers. It is quite time that 

 this state of things was remedied, and some scheme 

 launched on a co-operative basis whereby honey 

 can be distributed evenly over the markets. The 

 schemes which are now being inaugurated by 

 the Smallholder would no doubt embrace some- 

 thing of the kind, as there are infinite possibilities 

 in it, both for the selling of honey and any other 

 kind of produce grown on small-holdings. As 

 the thing stands at present, one man is producing 

 large crops with no market for them, owing some- 

 times, I confess, to lus own lack of business energy, 

 while another man is running here, there, and 

 everywhere in vain attempts to satisfy his numer- 

 ous and ever increasing customers. 



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