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Orders should be promptly acknowledged, and also promptly filled. 



Every customer should be given good value for his money. It is better to 

 err a little on the side of good measure than to give scant value ; but, even in 

 giving good measure, it is best not to go too far you cannot afford it. 



In quoting prices stock should be honestly described, and faults as well as 

 excellencies mentioned : they are equally important to the breeder, and it is 

 only fair to the customer who cannot personally examine birds before order- 

 ing. The breeder who does this, competing with those who do not accurately 

 describe their stock, is sure to lose some sales. It is much better to have a 

 correspondent buy of the other fellow and wish he had bought of you, than 

 buy of you and wish he had placed his order elsewhere. 



In selling stock on approval, the usual understanding is that it may be 

 returned if not as represented ; that is, if it does not answer the description 

 given, and the buyer can faily claim he has not been sent what he ordered. 

 Sometimes the special arrangement is that if the stock does not suit the 

 purchaser it may be returned. 



294. Shipping High Class Fowls. Breeding and exhibition fowls are 

 shipped by express in light coops made of wood, or of wood and canvas. 



Pig. 82. Box Coop for Shipping Thoroughbred 

 Fowls. 



Pig. 83. Coop for Shipping Fowls to Exhibi- 

 tion. Same Coop with ordinary Slat Top is often 

 used for Shipping Fowls to Customers. 

 (By courtesy of F. L. Sewell). 



If properly cooped, and provided with food and a cup for water, they can be 

 safely shipped any distance. Expressmen feed and water fancy fowls in 

 transit. Some of the companies are very strict in their requirements in this 

 matter, obliging their employees to mark the fact and time of each feeding on 

 the shipping bill. For fowls in all wood coops, and in coops of wood and 

 canvas, so constructed that were the canvas removed the fowls would still be 

 securely confined, the express rate is the regular merchandise rate, known as 

 the " first class" rate. For fowls in canvas covered coops, so constructed 

 that the canvas is required to confine them, the express rate is " double first 

 class," just twice as much as in the other style of coop. Figs. 82 83 show 



