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This ends the matter. See them weighed yourself at your depot, pay 
your own agent and he will give you a receipt. He is a 
friend of yours and he will weigh them correctly. If Prepay 
you let the shipment go forward to the city, express Express 
charges collect, you never know exactly whether the Charges 
charges are figured properly at the other end. The expressman who 
does the weighing at the city end may be a new boy, just entered the 
employ of the company. The delivery-sheet writer may make an error. 
By the time the box gets to the marketman there may be an excessive 
charge. It is not for the interest of the marketman io question the 
charge, because it does not come out of him, but out of you. He will 
sign the driver’s sheet as quickly as possible, pay the charges, and that 
ends the matter except when he bills it up to you; and you have to stand 
for them, unless you wish to go through the red tape and delay of getting 
a rebate. For these reasons we say to you emphatically, always prepay 
your shipments. 
The question is often asked, How longa distance can killed ducklings 
be successfully shipped to market? Even breeders who live in the West 
sometimes want to ship to New York. It is hard to Long 
answer this question in positive terms; it depends on the Distance 
season, on the man who is doing the shipping, ou the Shipments 
express company which is handling the shipment and on the promptness 
with which the shipment is picked up at destination. As a rule, we would 
say that a distance of 400 or 500 miles, such as from Buffalo to New 
York city, is all right. Meats and poultry are sold cheaper in Chicago 
than in the eastern cities. 
In choosing a commission man or marketman, it is a good idea first 
to make him your friend. Tell him what you are going to produce. 
Write him or see him. Talk to him in a friendly way. 
Do not look upon hi my. Do not change Geta Good 
pon him as an enemy. fo) g leek 
around from one dealer to another. When you have Marke 
found a good man and got him acquainted with you and your ducklings, 
stick to him. His customers will praise your ducklings; they will tell 
him they are fine. He will write to you and say he is pleased with 
them. His trade in them will grow, and he wants it to grow because 
he will make more money. Let him push your goods. Stick to him 
and he will stick to you, if he is any kind of a man. If you change 
around from one dealer to another, they will not take the interest iz 
your ducklings if they know that some other man will get the next lot 
of them. 
The whole duckling is not picked. The wing is picked up to the 
first joint. The neck is picked half way up to the head. The duckling 
is not opened or drawn. You must not take out the 
insides of a duckling before shipping. The birds will 
not keep nearly so well. They will begin to mold on 
the inside with the slightest delay. The marketmen want them undrawn, 
and that is the way you always should ship them. The birds are drawn 
by the marketman when he sells them to the customer, or the customer 
cleans them at his or her home, hotel “or restaurant, or wherever the 
How to Pick 
Ducklings 
cooking is done. 
