The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-11-13
Easiest Way to Get Fresh Country
Eggs and Butter Will be to Or
der Them by Mail

mail them to you by the new parcels
post"
A dozen eggs weigh about pound
The postage on a dozen eggs of that
weight, or a pound of butter, to Kan
sas City from any point on any rural
route radiating from Kansas City, will
be cents. For each additional pound
up to II pounds, the postage will be
one cent, and 11-pound package will
require fifteen cents postage.
Eleven pounds is the maximum
weight of a package that can be sent
by the new parcels post.
If the eggs or butter are mailed
from a point beyond the rural route
delivery from Kansas City, but with
in a radius of fifty miles, the postage
will be five cents for the first pound;
three cents for each additional pound
and thirty-five cents for package
weighing eleven pounds. Postage in
creases slightly with the distance.
Thus, in a zone between circle OF
a 5O-mile and 150-mile radius of Kan
sas City the postage will be six cents
for one pound, four cents for each ad-
ditional pound and forty-six cents for
an 11-pound parcel. In the zone be-
tween the 15O-mile and 300-mile circle
the postage will be seven cents for
one pound and five cents for each adj
ditional pound.
So, if you happen to know farmer
or chicken breeder who lives upon a
rural delivery route out of Kansas
City you may have him mail you elev-
en- dozen eggs, or eleven pounds of
butter at cost in postage of only fif-
teen cents, and there will be no 9th
er cost for carriage or delivery-the
postman delivers them to your door
anywhere within the city. A small
family uses four pounds of butter. The
postage will be only eight cents.
Creamery butter was worth thirty-four
cents a pound retail today. Four
pounds would cost $1.36. Country but
ter is worth today at the farm about
twenty cents. With postage at eight
cents the saving would be forty-eight
cents.
But it is not only eggs and butter
that will go by mail under the new
parcels post If you want jar of pre-
serves, or honey, or pair OF chick
ems, or anything else that weighs no
more than eleven pounds, it may go
by parcels post.
1t is likely that under the new par
cells post great business of shipping
direct from the farm to the consum'
er in the city will be carried on sys,
tematically. 1t is SO in England, in
South Africa and in Germany, where
they have had the parcels post for
years.
In England such odd things as
weasels, young alligators, leeches, liz
ards, living pigeons and poultry, mice
cats and dogs have been sent by par
GELS post.
The shipment of eggs by parcels
post in England is carried on so ex
tensively that in the postoffices in the
large cities special departments have
been assigned to it. In England many
farmers put small advertisements in
the city papers offering to ship eggs
honey, butter and preserved fruit and
jams by mail. The city man simply
writes letter ordering what he wants
and enclosing the price and the post
age and the next day the postman de
livers the goods to him.
The breakage of eggs in England is
extremely small. The government
sends out printed instructions how tc
pack them and pasteboard boxes made
after those regulations are sold every
where.
The postal department is working
out the details for carrying on the
business of the parcels post. Rural
mail wagons, which are mostly two
wheeled carts, will have to be sup
planted by wagons large enough to &C
commodate the new business. Motor
cars will be used where the business
is large enough to demand it. Hamp
ers will be provided for carrying pack
ages. Postmaster Harris believes the
rural business will grow so that the
postoffice here will have to get sys-
tenn of delivery wagons for different
sections of the city.
It is not likely that fruit or vege-
tables will be sent by parcels post to
any extent, because they weigh so
much. A bushel of apples weighs