116 EGGS AND POULTRY 
the place of the molting hens seems hard to 
believe. As the personal statements in this 
book are facts, so I believe these other 
statements are honest. Although pullets’ 
eggs as a rule are much smaller than mature 
hens’ eggs and I wouldn’t care to send all 
pullets’ eggs to my customers, still I put this 
statement before you. If you as a beginner 
can accomplish what they claim, you can add 
about $1 to the average profit a hen as 
claimed here. 
METHODS OF SHIPPING EGGS 
To return to your private trade customers. 
There are several ways of shipping eggs to 
the family trade—parcel post, express in 
small lots and express in larger lots. Parcel 
post is hardly satisfactory for an economical 
method of distributing eggs. Small lots of 
six dozen or so to each family is practically 
the same method as the larger lot way, the 
differences being in the saving of boxing and 
detail to the shipper when 30 dozen are sent, 
as against the sending of five dozen cases, 
and the saving of expressage to the consumer 
in the same proportion. 
Six dozen eggs cost 27 cents to express 100 
miles, while 30 dozen cost only 42, so the 
express cost a dozen runs from about 5 cents. 
