. Poultry-craft. A text-book for poultry keepers ... Poultry. Pig. 82. Box Coop for Shipping Thoroughbred Fowls. Fig. 83. Coop for Shipping Fowls to Exhibi- tion. Same Coop with ordinary Slat Top is often used for Shipping Fowls to Customers. (By courtesy of F. L. Sewell). If properly cooped, and provided with food and a cup for water, they can be safely shipped any distance. Expressmen feed and water fancy fowls in transit. Some of the companies are very strict in their requirements in this matter, obliging their employees to mark the fact and time of each feeding on the shipping bill. For fo
. Poultry-craft. A text-book for poultry keepers ... Poultry. Pig. 82. Box Coop for Shipping Thoroughbred Fowls. Fig. 83. Coop for Shipping Fowls to Exhibi- tion. Same Coop with ordinary Slat Top is often used for Shipping Fowls to Customers. (By courtesy of F. L. Sewell). If properly cooped, and provided with food and a cup for water, they can be safely shipped any distance. Expressmen feed and water fancy fowls in transit. Some of the companies are very strict in their requirements in this matter, obliging their employees to mark the fact and time of each feeding on the shipping bill. For fowls in all wood coops, and in coops of wood and canvas, so constructed that were the canvas removed the fowls would still be securely confined, the express rate is the regular merchandise rate, known as the "first class" rate. For fowls in canvas covered coops, so constructed that the canvas is required to confine them, the express rate is " double first class," just twice as much as in the other style of coop. Figs. 82—83 show. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935. Boston, I. S. Johnson & co.
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