STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



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Table No. II 



COMPARISON OP ACTUAL AND THEORETICAL SYSTEMS OF DELIVERY TO OBTAIN 

 AMOUNT OF UNNECESSARY DUPLICATION IN DELIVERY. 



From this table we find that there is a great amount of unnecessary dupli- 

 cation present in each of the cities studied. Also there is some necessary 

 dupUcation which must be considered. The tendency is to consider the 

 percentage of unnecessary duplication entirely as a percentage of inefficiency. 

 In reahty it is only the indicator of service demanded by and given to the 

 consumer and has but very little relation to his cost of milk. 



UNNECESSARY WAGONS. 



As previously stated, size of load plays a very important part in the effi- 

 ciency of distribution. With the use of a theoretical system as a measure, 

 the number of unnecessary wagons was determined as follows : 



An average load was determined for the theoretical system. The size of 

 this load varied in the different cities, but in each case it was estimated as 

 nearly as possible to what could be expected to be a day's work for a man con- 

 sidering seasons of the year. By dividing the milk sold in the city into 

 these theoretical sized loads the number of unnecessary wagons was deter- 

 mined. The difference between the actual number of wagons in use and the 

 number of wagons carrying optimum loads is the number of unnecessary 

 wagons. 



Table No. Ill 



A COMPARISON OF THE ACTUAL AND THEORETICAL SYSTEMS OF DELIVERY TO 



DETERMINE UNNECESSARY WAGONS. 



