226 



CITY MILK SUPPLY 



TABLE 75. DATA ON HORSE-VEHICLE OPERATION (THOMPSON ) : 



General Information: 



Business 



Number of one-horse wagons 



Number of two-horse wagons 



Average number of horses 



Percentage of extra horses 



First cost of one-horse wagon, dollars 



First cost of two-horse wagon, dollars '. 



Average price paid for horses 



First cost per set of harness 



Performance : 



Miles traveled per day 



Trips per wagon per day 



Deliveries per wagon per day 



Pounds hauled per wagon per day 



Operation and maintenance: 



Shoeing dollars per annum, per horse 



Veterinary dollars per annum, per horse ^ . . 



Feed . .- . . 



Stable rent, stable labor and general expense, dollars per annum, 

 per horse 



Wagon repairs and painting, per wagon 



Harness repairs, per wagon 



Driver, per wagon 



Overhead charges: 



Interest and amortization, dollars per annum, per horse 



Interest and amortization, single wagon, dollars per annum, per 

 wagon 



Interest and amortization double wagon, dollars per annum, 



per wagon. 

 Total per annum dollars: 



Operation per horse 



Maintenance per wagon 



Milk 



1,234 



237 



1,983 



16 



225 



225 



225 



25 



8 

 1 



225 

 2,000 



21 



3 



180 



50 



100 



5 



780 



34 



38 

 38 



254 

 105 



Milk Milk 

 62 11 



8 



86 



10 



275 



500 



250 



1 



14 

 8 



235 

 235 

 225 



45 50 



20 



1 



150 



12 



1 



250 



1,800 12,000 



20 ! 24 



3 

 168 



82 



86 



12 



776 



25 



48 

 82 



273 



98 



3 

 180 



82 



28 



1 



780 



14 



17 

 17 



289 

 29 



1 From "Relative Fields of Horse, Electric and Gasolene Trucks," Res. Bull. 4, 

 Dept. Elect. Eng., Mass. Inst. Tech., 1914. 



Sources 



VAN ALYSTYNE, "The Country Milk Situation in New York State," Butt. 54, N. Y. 



Dept. Ag., December, 1915. 

 HOPPER and ROBERTSON, "The Cost of Milk Production," Bull 357, Cornell Univ. 



Ag. Expt. Sta., 1915. 

 THOMAS, "A Review of Practical Methods for Supervising the Milk Supply of Cities," 



Jour. Am. Public Health Assn., vol. 1, No. 11, pp. 798-807, 1911. 

 ZIPPEL, "The Transportation and Care of Milk by Railroad Companies," Proc., 



Conference on Milk and Milk Problems, N. Y. Milk Committee, December, 1910. 

 SHARWELL, "Lessons to be Learned from an Inspection that Follows Milk from the Cow 



to the Consumer," 4th Annual Report of the International Association of Dairy 



and Milk Inspectors, 1915. 

 BOWEN, "The Application of Refrigeration to the Handling of Milk," Butt. 98, 



U. S. Dept. Ag. 



