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mother who glowingly declared: “I feel like a flower about to burst into
bloom.” She hopes soon to be able to stay home and look after her family
while earning a living. And even if she doesn’t sell a million lambs and make
a million dollars there is every indication that she will make a thousand.

chapter sIX
STARTING A ROADSIDE BUSINESS
I

F YOU lack money enough to take your goods to your market—that is, open
a store, advertise extensively, or hire a crew to sell house to house—you must
bring your market to your door. That door may be just a roadside stand such
as you see along the highways. Along these well-traveled routes, with their
ever-increasing army of tourists, you have a great potential market. Jump in
your car and run out on any highway. You won’t go but a few miles before
you run across at least one roadside stand.

This stand may be the usual type which sells farm products—eggs, poultry,
fruits, vegetables, butter, honey, etc. It may be one of the thousands of stands
scattered far and wide across the country’s highways which sells hamburgers,
hot dogs, barbecue sandwiches, citrus and other fruit drinks, pop, potato
chips, candied pop corn, doughnuts, or custard ice cream. Souvenir and postal
card stands are so common it is hardly necessary to mention them. Then there
are the historical souvenirs which are sold around centers of historical
interest.

Which one of these many stands might make money for you depends upon
the particular need in your locality, the buying habits of those who pass your
way, and your ability to attract customers. Know your community well for
much of your business may come from those in your neighborhood as well as
the tourists who pass through your town. Key your product to your section.
The tourist who passes through the little towns of Vermont most likely will
want maple syrup or maple sugar candy. You might convert the natives of
Vermont to hot tamales, or make the tourist think he wants them, but you
probably would lose a lot of money before you had done so.