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kind. It will save much labor if this be done and will not 

 require more time of the picker. 



The packing of stock should be looked after, carefully. 

 Quills should be packed in boxes, each kind separate, and care 

 taken to get exact tare of the box and cover. If quills are 

 shipped any great distance sacks can be used, provided they 

 are good ones and the quills are laid into them as straight as 

 possible. Quills should not be dumped into bags without 

 regard to condition. 



Most large shippers pack and ship body feathers of ducks 

 and geese in white muslin sacks, the sacks being thirty inches 

 wide and seventy-two inches long, and chicken body feathers 

 in sacks 30 inches wide and 75 inches long. The sacks should 

 be burlaped. The weight is approximately one hundred 

 pounds. Quills and other grades are also shipped in sacks. 



In shipping see that each and every bag or box has your 

 shipping tag or mark, with gross weight and tare. Your letter 

 of advice to the buyer should have full particulars, separate 

 weights, tare, and net weights. In order that the goods be 

 handled quickly the buyer considers this very important. 



In regard to freight rates it may be of interest to the reader 

 to know that the price of feathers is so low in some grades and 

 the freight rate so high that it leaves very little profit after 

 cost of handling and packing is paid. The freight rate from 

 Raleigh, North Carolina, to Cincinnati, Ohio, is Ij^ cents per 

 pound, and as the prices in the following Kst is "delivered ia 

 Cincinnati" it can be seen that the profit would be small. 

 The distance from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Cincinnati is 

 569 miles. 



The following is a quotation sheet from a well-known 

 feather merchant of Cincinnati, which was issued February 

 17, 1915, and will serve to give the relative value of each kind 

 <if feathers as well as the market grades. 



Geese Feathers 



Pure white $ .65 



Good average white • 55 



Largely gray 47 



Largely gray, scalded ; 35-. 40 



Long goose-quills 07 



