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is four cents a quart for whole milk, two cents for skim milk and twenty- 

 five cents for 25 per cent, cream. 



All milk in Amsterdam is delivered by hand, either in a cart pushed 

 by a man, or carried in pails with 

 a yoke. The supply house which 

 we visited, runs fifty delivery 

 carts — a man and a boy going with 

 each cart. The bottled milk is 

 carried in a box in the middle of 

 the cart, and usually on each end 

 is a brass cask having copper 

 hoops and handles. As the Hol- 

 landers pay much attention to ap- 

 pearance, these are kept highly 

 polished. There are one hundred 



men and a large number of boys Farmer's wagon delivering milk at dis- 

 employed— the men receiving from tributing plant Amsterdam, Holland. 



fifty to ninety cents a day and the boys ten cents. The cheapness of 

 labor accounts for the popularity of hand delivery. 



CHEESE AND BUTTER. 



At Rotterdam we made a more familiar acquaintance with the 

 chief product for Avhich Holland is noted, namely, cheese. We paid a 



Cheese market, Alkmaar, Holland. Showing carriers on which cheese is transported 



from the market to the boats. 



