76 F. H. LATTIN, GAINES, N. V. 



TO PACK EGGS FOB TRANSPORTATION. 



Always use strong boxes, well made from some light 

 material. 



Cigar boxes, if well made, answer the purpose very 

 well. The large sizes we do not consider as safe as the 

 smaller ones. 



Should the cover tit inside of the end pieces of the 

 box, nail a small cleat across each end on the inside, thereby 

 preventing any possibility of the cover breaking in and 

 crushing the contents, which would otherwise almost in- 

 variably happen from the rough usage which the box is sure 

 to receive in the mails. 



For orders or exchanges smaller than those required to 

 till a "50 " size cigar box we use round tin boxes ranging in 

 size from 1 oz. to 16 oz. The saving in postage by the use 

 of these boxes will more then pay the first cost. The 12 

 and 16 oz. size, although we use hundreds of them, at our 

 risk, we do not consider safe unless the boxes are first cov- 

 ered with a strip of pasteboard before the final wrapping 

 for the mail. Having prepared a suitable box for the spec- 

 imens, we proceeoT to pack them by wrapping each egg 

 carefully in a small roll of cotton. The eggs thus wrapped 

 can then be packed in layers, snugly, but not tightly, in the 

 box. Hundreds of eggs are broken through careless pack- 

 ing, and by trying to crowd in too many eggs into a small 

 space. 



After wrapping your eggs in cotton if you must add 

 nn additional wrapper use a piece of thin paper, tissue is 



