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I Table No. VI shows the relation of quarts sold per mile traveled and quarts 

 sold per hour. Here we would expect that the greatest number of quarts 

 sold per mile would tend to increase the number of quarts sold per hour 

 which is approximately true, but is not so in every case, as in Table V the 

 personal element plays the most important part. Tables No. VII, VIII, IX 

 and X, comparing operations in different ways show also that there is no 

 direct relation between operations. Because of the extremes which the com- 

 parisons show it would be safe to assume that other influences outside of the 

 necessary labor in the different operations are more responsible for any 

 excess in labor requirements. Some of the influences which tend toward 

 irregularity in distribution are: personal element, character of vehicle, and 

 territory covered — arrangement being made according to importance. 



Table No. VI 



The Relation of the Average Nimiiber of Quarts Sold Per Mile Traveled to 

 the Average Number of Quarts Sold Per Hour By the Different Dis- 

 tributors in the Three Cities Studied 



