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tacle for the milk will protect it from the heat, dogs, cats and flies and 

 perhaps from being stolen is a good stroke for both the company and the 

 consumer. Some delivery men get disliked by cutting across lawns and 

 flower beds. A noisy driver is an infernal nuisance. In the modern 



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FIG. 47. Delivery wagon in which the driver mounts over the wheel. 



city, so many keep late hours and there are so many night workers that 

 a driver who shouts at his horse and rattles the bottles about becomes 

 deservedly unpopular. Some towns like Brookline, Mass., have made a 



FIG. 48. Delivery wagon with the door between the wheels. 



special effort to abate the noise attendant on early morning deliveries 

 and among other things have had rubber-tired wagons adopted. 



Milk is not ordinarily delivered with a team; when one is used the 

 route is generally a long one or the milk is hauled into the city from a dairy 

 farm nearby. Ordinarily deliveries are made in a one-horse wagon. 



