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would be one-tenth the cost of crate and 
fillers 6.3 cents, expressage 42 cents, return 
of empty crate 10 cents, a total of about 60 
cents or 2 cents a dozen. 
All eggs should be examined before ship- 
ping, dirty eggs washed, cracked eggs re- 
moved and under sized eggs saved for your 
own use. 
If at any time you should deliver eggs in 
small lots of a dozen or so, they should be 
packed in boxes holding one dozen each, 
these boxes having your name and address 
on the cover, and making a neat way of ad- 
vertising your business. If you ship direct 
to the families in the way I do, you cut off 
this expense of the boxes which means al- 
most one cent a dozen. Pretty boxes are 
all very well, but the main things are to 
maintain the high standard of quality and 
to have the eggs arrive in perfect condition. 
We have all bought eggs in nice artistic 
boxes labelled “strictly fresh eggs,” etc., and 
later have found that the box was the best 
part of the purchase. All the egg crates I 
have made and shipped are returned empty 
by the express company for ten cents each. 
They can be reshipped many times, reducing 
the average cost a crate to a very small item. 
