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because they did not know where it was to be obtained. 

 Stick on your name and address, and if possible, distri- 

 bute honey leaflets by the hundred, and soon you will be 

 wanting to lay out for a much larger "output." 



Fruit and Vegetable flarket^. 



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 that' 'Well, send me some, and I will see 

 " ' what I can do with it.' So I did, as I found he was a 

 " selling agent, or whatever you may call him, and he 

 " got me a very fair price, too, and is always ready for 

 " more. But other people I have usually supplied are 

 " already speaking for my crop that's yet to come." 



This is as it should be, where a man keeps steadily on 

 and works away with a will. There are many ways and 



