Business Section 
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tends to Alaska, the Canal Zone, Guam, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Pago Pago, 
Samoa, Tau, Shanghai and the Philippines. 
The C. O. D. privilege applies to parcel post packages that are 
sent from a money order post office in the United States for delivery 
at another money order post office in the United States, Alaska, the 
Canal Zone, Guam, Hawaii, Porto Rico, Pago Pago, Samoa or Shanghai. 
The C. O. D. fee is 10c. prepaid, in addition to the regular postage 
and the limit of collection is $100; this fee of 10c. also insures the pack- 
age to a limit of $50. The sender receives a receipt. The C. O. D. 
payment is made by the post office direct to the sender by a postal 
money order, the fee for which order is paid for by the addressee, in 
addition to the amount of the C. O. D. The contents of the package 
cannot be examined before payment. C. O. D. packages may be for- 
warded to another address on additional payment of the regular postage 
on the package. 
The rate of postage on parcels of seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, 
scions and plants, weighing eight ounces or less, is one cent for each 
two ounces or fraction thereof, regardless of distance; on parcels 
weighing more than eight ounces, the pound rates shown in the table 
apply. 
Second-Class Matter by Express Carriers 
The following are specified as second class express material: 
Bulbs, cactus. Cape Jasmines, cuttings (except cut flowers); fer- 
tilizer and fertilizer material (dry and deodorized) ; greens, decorative, 
cut, in box, crates or baskets and packed so that they may be stowed 
with other freight and may be handled without extra care; Mushroom 
spawn; plants, dormant, not potted, securely packed; plants, growing, 
not in pots or tubs, placed in boxes, the sides and ends of which are 
as high or higher than the plants, and slats nailed over the top, com- 
pletely protecting the plants, roots, scions, tubers. Cut flowers are 
first class. 
TWELVE O’CLOCK NOON NEW YORK MEAN (EASTERN) TIME. 
AS COMPARED WITH THE ClOCK IN THE FOLLOWING PLACES. 
H. M. 
Amsterdam 5 16 p.m. 
Auckland (N. Z.) 4 45 a.m. 
Berlin 5 50 p.m. 
Bombay 9 47 p.m. 
Boston, Mass. . .12 12 p.m. 
Brisbane, QDsl’d. 3 8 a.m. 
Brussels 5 13 p.m. 
Cairo 7 1 p.m. 
Calcutta. 10 49 p.m.' 
Cape Town 6 10 p.m. 
Chicago 11 6 a.m. 
Constantinople. . 6 52 p.m. 
Dublin 4 31 p.m. 
H. M. 
Edinburgh 4 43 p.m. 
The Hague 5 15 p.m. 
Hobart, Tas- **■ 
mania 2 45 a.m. 
London, Eng 4 56 p.m. 
Madrid 4 41 p.m. 
Melbourne, Aus. 2 36 a.m. 
Moscow 7 26 p.m. 
Paps 5 5 p.m. 
Pekin 0 52 a.m. 
Penzance 4 33 p.m. 
Perth, W. Aus.. . 0 39 a.m. 
Petrograd 6 57 p.m. 
H. M. 
Port Moresby. ..30 a.m. 
Prague 5 54 p.m. 
Quebec 0 11 p.m. 
Rome 5 46 p.m. 
Rotterdam 5 14 p.m. 
San Francisco, 
Port 8 48 a.m. 
Stockholm 6 8 p.m. 
Suez 7 6 p.m. 
Sydney 3 1 a.m. 
Toronto 11 38 a.m. 
Vancouver 8 34 a.m. 
Vienna 6 1 p.m. 
