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trading might wrap their butter in a
special paper that marked it as coming
from their farm. Others would just
bring theirs to Frank in a container, and
he would wrap it in the generic store
paper.
When it came time to sell or trade
the butter, some customers would
request butter specifically from certain
farms, but others were fine with the
generic kind. Frank always tried to be
accommodating when he could, but
when a certain butter became popular,
he might increase what he paid or
traded for it, and in turn charge a little
higher margin in order to balance
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