F. C. PUTNAM 
W. T. PUTNAM 
W. T, PUTNAM, Jr. 
MAIL ORDERS TAKEN FOR 
DRESSED CHICKENS, DUCKS, 
GEESE, FRESH EGGS AND 
OTHER FARM PRODUCTS 
Xntermount Jpartn 
W. T. PUTNAM a SONS 
"THE MAIL ORDER FARM” 
INTERMOUNT FARM BUTTER, 
CREAM. CHEESE. SAUSAGE. 
AND FRESH PORK 
Eafee Custfjman, ©Hasrtj. 
Our Parcel Post work has increased greatly since I wrote you last 
about it, and we now have about 30 regular customers whom we supply 
each wek. Every Saturday I butcher a pig which on Monday is eat 
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up and the loins, feet, spare ribs and now and then a ham, sent out 
by Tuesday's mail. We also send a lot of butter, cream cheese and 
eggs and the two shoulders are cut up into sausage. Then Wednesday 
I select my chickens at night, and they are killed and dressed 
Thursday a. m. and they and another batch of cheese^ eggs etc. go 
out on Friday. We prepared 20 chix this morning. As you can see , 
we do not have much time to spend on Society. If we had some one 
on whom we could rely to prepare the things, it would not be so 
bad, but we have a very nice lot of customers, and we cannot afford 
to let anything that is not at the best^to get away from us. We 
raised 30 turkeys this year and have sold 23 odf them all we wished 
to dispose of. A great many of them were bought^by people at the # 
hotel during the summer, and so far nearly everyone who had one 
took the trouble to write us and tell us what a fine bird it was. 
It is very nice to be able to give people good service and to 
have them appreciate it. There is a great difference between a 
well fitted bird which has been dressed, within a few minutes of 
killing and one which has hung in a shop for an indefinite period 
with its entrails still in it, fermenting and tainting the whole 
carcass. You would be surprised to see how much cream cheese we 
send out. We fix it just as we put it on the table, about half 
cream, not quite i.in enough to pour. We have a package which we 
get in Sandusky, a pure white paraffined paper pot, shaped like 
a tall flower pot. It has a paraffined paper top which fits into 
