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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 mot suzt 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. 
Fig. 83. Coop for Shipping Fowls to Exhibi- 
p tion, Same Coop with ordinary Slat Top is often 
Fig. 82, Box Coop for Shipping Thoroughbred used for Shipping Fowls to Customers. 
Fowls. (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 
