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city of Manchester, where milk is sold by the glass or quart. He rents 

 a double shop in the main part of the city for $4,000 a year, where 

 he serves refreshments and employs twenty people. He pays the labor- 

 ers that work inside his dairies, 

 and also those who deliver milk, 

 six dollars a week. 



He buys from 20,000 to 30,000 

 pounds of milk a day, selling it at 

 6 cents a quart in summer and 7 

 cents in winter. Most of the milk 

 is delivered in bulk and in pint 

 and quart buckets, none of the 

 milk being bottled, with tho ex- 

 ception of a small amount which 

 is pasteurized and sold in small- 

 necked glass bottles. He sells 50 per cent, cream in ten-ounce jars at 

 12 cents. If the jar is returned, 1 cent is refunded. 



Another example of a dairy company supplying a city with milk 

 is a concern doing a high class buiness in one of the smaller cities. 

 It has as a depot an excellent two-story brick building with an attrac- 

 tive shop i]i front where milk is sold by the glass, or in larger quantities. 

 The floors are of cement and the walls of white glazed brick. 

 One entire side of the building and a portion of the roof are of glass, 

 giving ample light in the second story, where most of the milk is handled. 

 A wash room for cleaning cans and dairy utensils is fitted up with every 



City milk supply depot, showing milk 

 chums and delivery carts. 



Dairy Short-horns. A source of London's milk supply. 



needed appliance and a large boiler furnishes steam for power and 

 sterilizing. There is also a churn room where any milk or cream that is 

 left unsold is converted into butter. About 7,000 pounds of milk are 

 brought daily to this depot by the farmers in the vicinity. The milk is 

 filtered, pasteurized and thoroughly cooled, and is then ready for the 

 consumer. The twenty men employed in preparing and delivering the 



