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STATE BOARD OF AGRICUI.TURE. 



Table No. X 



THE RELATION OP THE AVERAGE NUMBER OP MILES TRAVELED PER DAY PER 

 WAGON TO THE TIME OP DELIVERY PER DAY PER WAGON OP THE DIFPERENT 

 DISTRIBUTORS OF THE THREE CITIES STUDIED. 



EFFECT OF THE AMOUNT OF MILK DELIVERED ON THE EFFICIENCY 



OF RETAIL DELIVERY. 



It is generally supposed that the larger distributors are able to deliver 

 milk EQore economically than the smaller distributors, mainly because of the 

 opportunity to organize their territory better and thus shorten their routes 

 and avoid duplication. This would then give more time to the driver who 

 would be able to deliver more milk. 



Table No. XI was prepared to show how near true this was in actual prac- 

 tice. In the table showing "Miles Traveled per Quart" we find that for the 

 city of Flint the theoretical holds true. For Lansing the same is true with 

 the exception of the 500 to 1,000 quart dealer. This variation is accounted 

 for when we find that only 374 quarts retail milk is dehvered. Kalamazoo 

 shows a much greater irregularity than does either of the other two. Here 

 we find the largest distributors traveling more miles per quart than any class 

 of smaller distributors of the same city. There were many things to influence 

 this, perhaps the most important being no workable city ordinance. Some 

 others were : the location of one of the large distributors, credit system, plan 

 of the city, rate of pay and method of payment of drivers. 



It would naturally be expected that there would be a direct relation be- 



