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set back a long way; of course it takes more time and therefore costs more 

 to deliver to the latter. In apartment-house districts it should be noted 

 whether deliveries are made on the ground floor for the whole house or 

 whether deliveries are made on all the floors. 



The Dairy Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has col- 

 lected data with regard to. the distribution of milk that are set forth in 

 Tables 101 and 102 and a Committee of the International Milk Dealers' 

 Association received reports from 21 of its members representing three 

 Provinces and 13 States as to the number of hours their milk remained 

 on the delivery wagons; the information is summarized in Table 103. 



TABLE 101. AVERAGE LOAD CARRIED BY MILK DELIVERY WAGONS IN FIVE CITIES OP 

 THE UNITED STATES (U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE) 



TABLE 102. MILES TRAVELED, LOAD CARRIED AND QUARTS DELIVERED BY THE 

 WAGONS OF DEALERS IN FOUR CITIES OP THE UNITED STATES (U. S. DEPARTMENT 



OP AGRICULTURE) 



It should be recognized that the cost of delivering milk in pint bottles 

 is greater than for delivering in quarts, for pint bottles take longer to 

 fill and clean and disappear from service faster than quarts. It takes 

 as long for a driver to deliver a quart of milk as a pint and of course the 

 return for his time is less. So the dealer is justified in charging a higher 

 rate for milk delivered in pints than for that in quarts. 



The delivery of milk in quart as compared with pint bottles was 

 studied by the Dairy Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 The results thereof appear in Table 104. 



Thus 41 per cent, of the bottled 'milk of 74 dealers was put out in pint 

 bottles and they each handled 1.39 pint bottles to every quart bottle. 



Pint and J^-qt. bottles are used in certain deliveries such as those at 



