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Show HOW COUNTRY YOUNG FOLKS MAKE MONEY In the current Issue of Farm and Fireside appears an account of how young men and women living on farms can make money by buying farm products and selling them In the cities on commission. Following is on extract: "Whero some young person in the' neighborhood goes to tho city rcgu laxly, tho method is very simple. Tho customers are secured, tho goods packed and tho young person in tho city looks after tho dollvery in person. per-son. Often a largo hamper can bo checked. Thus express and freight charges are saved, and thoro aro no middlemen's profits to come from tho produce. It goes without saying that everything must bo exactly as represented, or tho wholo thing will full at once. It also goes without soylng that everything must look attractive at-tractive In summer carrying butter through tho hot sun on a train would bo out of the question, but in win-tor win-tor it will bo hard and Arm and good looking when delivered, oven though it may have been several hours on tho way. ,"No one who has tried this will say that It Is easy or pleasant work, but it Is urofltable. Ono group of young people who ship barrels of produco to city boarding houses and to private pri-vate customers havo found it anything any-thing but pleasant in oittor weather, when tho country must bo ransacked to get tho right articles, but it Is very paying, and they can stand tho dUcorafort. When the weather is mild, tho work Is not hard, but cold or warm in winter theso young folks are regular and prompt with their shlpmonts. They pack everything so attractlvoly that It cannot fall to soil and tho quality is always tho host. Cottago cheese, grated horseradish, country sausage, homo mado fruit cake, preserves, pickles, nuts, apples tor vegetables, popcorn, eggs, butter, but-ter, lard smoked meats gamo, Christmas Christ-mas greons, pears and all tho othor avallablo products of tho farm find their "way to thoso woll packed hampers ham-pers and barrels. Thoy woro wlso enough to cater to people who aro willing to pay fancy prices for fancy nrticlos. Tholr winters aro now moro profltablo than thoir summers, although al-though they do not work qulto so hard, nor aa steadily aa in hot weaker." |