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Show POULTRY CACKLES SHIP EGGS BY PARCEL POST Cost Depends Greatly on Container Used, Size of Eggs and Packing and Wrapping. Average hens' eggs will weigh nbotit IVj pounds to the dozen, or two ounces apiece. The weight of n single dozen of eggs In n corton properly packed and wrapped for mailing will run from two to three pounds, depending on the nature of the particular container, the size of the eggs, and the packing nnd wrapping used. If tho container be n very light one nnd the eggs smiill. the parcel mny full within the two-pound limit, nnd the postage, therefore, Fiber-Board Box Filled With Corrugat ed Pasteboard Lining and Fillers ol Same Material Each Egg Has t Separate Wrap. within the first nnd second zones, oi ISO-iullo limit, would bo six cents Most parcels containing n dozen eggt will exceed two pounds but will no reach three; therefore the postage oi them will he seven cents within tin first und second zones. A parcel con tnlnlng two dozen eggs will add per Imps two cents to tho postuge, thougt sometimes only one cent, depcndlm on tho nature of tho container nnd tin packing and wrapping. It should he observed thnt the larg cr tho parcel (within the size nni weight limits) the cheaper Is tin postage, as the first pound of cverj pnekngo costs five cents within tin first and second zones, while each ad dltlonnl pound up to GO, costs but one cent; so that whllo n one-pound parcel would cost five cents postage, a two pound parcel would cost only six cents or three cents n pound. A 20-pound purcel would cost 24 cents or one nni one-fifth cents per pound nnd n CO pound parcel would cost 54 cents, oi but ono and two-fifteenths cents pe' pound. |