136 POULTRY 
tions the producer naturally will make every 
effort possible to give to his customer the 
best grade of egg which he can produce. 
The consumer, knowing the eggs to be of the 
best grade and strictly fresh, and, perhaps, 
knowing personally the producer himself, is 
willing to pay a premium over the egg-mar- 
ket price for ordinary fresh eggs. 
Containers. Various box manufacturers 
have developed parcel-post containers which 
are practical—containers which are light 
and at the same time strong. If such a con- 
tainer is used there should be but very little 
difficulty in using the parcel post as a means 
of transporting eggs. 
Not Adapted to Large Plants. This 
method of marketing eggs is not considered 
practicable on the large farm, where a man 
is keeping twelve hundred hens or upward, 
because the time that would be involved in 
packing and caring for the large number of 
eggs produced on such a farm, and making 
them up into separate shipments, would be 
too great. The extra margin to be made out 
of this system of marketing would hardly 
warrant the hiring of extra help. 
