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They simply do not know how to ship and how to talk to the 

 express agents. 



We never read the above advice as to shipping live-stock in 

 any book or paper. It is the product of otir own experience 

 and the information cost us at least one hundred dollars in 

 excess charges before we learned how to get the low rate. 

 It is worth doUars to oiir customers. 



No express agent anywhere has a right to make any extra 

 charges whatever on our pigeon shipments. 



There is no duty on our pigeons to Canada, Cuba or Porto 

 Rico, when we send with the pigeons and also to the customer, 

 as we do, a certificate of purity of breed, declaring that the 

 pigeons are for breeding, and not to be killed for market. 



Squab breeders having special customers who wish the squabs 

 plucked should pack them in a clean white wood box (with ice 

 in the summer) and nail the box up tight. Such shipments go 

 through in splendid condition and if the breeder has a choice 

 article, with the Plymouth Rock trade mark stamped on the 

 box, he gets the fancy price. Squabs which reach the Boston 

 market from jobbers in Philadelphia and New York are plucked 

 and packed with ice in barrels. Breeders around Boston who 

 reach the Boston market with imdressed squabs send them in 

 boxes or wicker hampers or baskets on the morning of the day 

 after they are kiUed. 



Since January 1, 1913, killed squabs have been mailable by 

 parcel post in the zone where the shipment originates. One 

 squab may be sent to a customer inside the zone for only a 

 nickel. Squabs which are mailed by parcel post should be 

 wrapped first in white waxed paper and then in stout brown 

 paper or corrugated pasteboard. The parcel post is helping 

 those squab breeders who wish to sell one or two or three pairs 

 or more ,direct to consumers with a quick delivery. Live pig- 

 eons cannot be mailed. 



^Killed squabs go to market by express not at the express rate 

 charged for ordinary merchandise, but at a specially low rate 

 known, as the " general special " rate. For full particulars 

 how to get this great saving in express charges when shipping 

 killed squabs, see page 401 of this book, where the whole matter 

 is explained in thorough detail. Do not assume that your ex- 

 press agent knows about this low rate. Some of them do but 

 most do not and it is money in your pocket to tell them. 



