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Show 'SELLING BUTTER BY PARCELS P08T A Now York stato woman contributes tho following fol-lowing to tho current Issue of Farm and Fireside: "My friends In Now Jersoy', twenty miles from New York City, were paying fortyuwo cents per pound for ordinary grade butter. I sent four pounds of butter from my post olllce (Clnrkston, Monroe county, New York) on Tuesday afternoon and It reached iry friends early Thursday morning "My grocer injs mo twent-olght cents pc pound. I charge J them thirty-two cents, and tioy paid tho parcel p;itge which was twenty-seven cents. ... "I packed the butter In n now flvo cent light weight bread tin llred th:oughout with oiled paper. We both call it n good bargain. I make four cents a pound on my butter, and they get better butter for thirty nlm conts a pound." |