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Table 2. — Allocation of Production* of Springfield-Holyoke-Chicopee 

 MiLKSHED Among Its Markets 



Market 



Percent 



Springfield 59 . 5 



Local 13.9 



Outside 26.6 



Total 100.0 



*Full-time Grade B Shippers. 



Table 3. — Average Volume of Milk Handled Daily in April* 1935 by 

 Distributors Operating in the Chief Loc.\l Markets 



Volume of Milk Handled 



Local Market 



By Producer By Merchant 

 Distributors Dealers 



Total 



Number of 



Producers 



Distributors 



Amherst 5,221 1,664 6,885 14 10 



Greenfield 1,700 9,686 11,386 71 13 



Northampton 5,146 16,179 21,325 91 21 



Palmer 3,421 2,151 5,572 24 12 



Ware 4,390 247 4,637 18 15 



Total 19,878 29,927 49,805 218 71 



*Data available only for month of April. 



Table 4. — Distribution to Outside Markets 



♦Summation of Average Dairy E>eliveries. 

 **365-Day Year Calculated. 

 ***Sum of yearly deliveries of full-time producers. 



Number and Distribution of Producers 



Program planners for the dairy industry have to decide, among other things, 

 whether their interest is the commercial dairyman or all herd owners; whether 

 their concern is the existing pattern of commercial productive organization and 

 activity or the potential productive organization and capacity of a milkshed. 

 The decisions are not easily made because of the arbitrary element involved in 

 defining the commercial dairyman. 



