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This illustrates the boxes I use for shipping hatching eggs. The one on top is 

 ready to receive the eggs. The one on the right is packed with eggs and the cover 

 partly on. The bo.v on the left is ready for shipment^ and contains 15 eggs. 



Shipping Stock 



On page 67 is illustrated a shipping box such as I use for the birds. 

 This kind of a box is very desirable because it is light and makes a splen- 

 did advertisement for your business. 



These shipping boxes I make in three sizes — No. 1 for a single bird, 

 No. 2 for a trio, and No. 3 for a pen of five to eight. The No. 1 size is 

 ten inches wide, nineteen inches long and eighteen inches high ; No. 2 is 

 fifteen inches wide, twenty-four inches long and eighteen inches high; 

 No. 3 is twenty inches wide, twenty-four inches long and eighteen inches 

 high. The ends and bottom should be made out of white pine or poplar, 

 and the sides out of extra heavy and extra strong strawboard. The slats 

 across the top are two inches wide and should be put on about two 

 inches apart. These boxes can be bought with bottom and ends cleated 

 ready to nail together, including slats and heavy cardboard sides, at forty 

 cents for size No. 1, fifty cents for size No. 2, and sixty cents for size 

 No. 3. 



