Badgers

A traveling middleman who buys such things as fish, butter, cheese, and corn from their producers and resells them. A hawker.

"Badger, a huckster; a man who goes about the country with ass and panniers, to buy up butter, eggs, and fruit, which he will sell at a near market-town; and before shops were common in every village, he dealt in needles, thread, trimmings, and the like, for which he was open to exchange."

John C. Atkinson, Glossary of the Cleveland dialect (1868)