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to the city. Thus Indianapolis gets 3 per cent, of its supply, Cleveland 

 5 per cent., Philadelphia 5 per cent., Baltimore 7 per cent, and Detroit 

 8 per cent, in this manner. 



Transportation of Milk by Steamboat. Steamboats are little used 

 for carrying milk; Chicago gets a small quantity of milk that way in the 

 summer months and New York so receives 6,000 qt. daily which is about 

 0.2 per cent, of the entire daily supply. 



Transportation of Milk by Electric Cars. Electric railroads trans- 

 port great quantities of milk. The amount of milk that a city receives 

 by electric roads depends on the degree to which interurban traction 

 systems have been developed in its vicinity. In this respect the cities 



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of the middle west are well-served. Chicago receives 5 per cent, of its 

 supply over electric roads, Detroit 39 per cent., Cleveland 45 per cent., 

 Indianapolis 68 per cent., whereas of the Eastern cities Philadelphia 

 receives only 4 per cent, in this way and Boston, New York and Baltimore 

 none at all. In some cases the electric roads have made special effort 

 to capture the milk-carrying trade and have established highly com- 

 mendable service. Often, however, nothing of the sort is attempted 

 and the milk is handled very carelessly. Trainmen drink from the 

 unsealed cans and the milk travels on platforms in the sun or is stowed 

 away among a miscellaneous parcel of baggage that is often dirty and 

 smelly. The stations where the milk is picked up are usually uncovered 

 platforms where it is often left exposed to the elements for an hour or 

 more before being loaded onto the cars. Such conditions are wholly 

 unnecessary and would hardly be permitted in a district where there 



