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high and twenty-four inches wide. This will make a 

 good, strong, light coop. 



Family Poultry — For choice private trade, prepare 

 in an especially attractive manner, as in the illustra- 

 tion, Figure 29, in convenient shape for boiling or 

 roasting. Pick the birds carefully, wipe off any dis- 

 coloration with a moist cloth, singe carefully and 

 remove any remaining pinfeathers, and the bird is 

 ready for cooking. Customers appreciate getting poul- 

 try in .-fust this shape. The feet can be left on, but 



Fig. 30 CANADIAN SHIPPING BOS 



when customers have confidence in the one furnishing 

 them poultry, this is not necessary. 



In exporting chickens for England, according to 

 the advice of A. S. Baker, an English expert, select those 

 weighing from five and one-half to six pounds each. 

 They should have the head left on, a fringe of feathers 

 left around the head, and the tail and wing feathers 

 should be left on. They should be picked dry, never 

 drawn, and starved for twenty-four hours before killing. 

 Thej' should be packed in boxes holding one dozen 



