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Table 12. — Proportion of Total Purchases Taken by Four Dealers 



By Areas, 1935 



Area 



Purchases 

 by Four 

 Dealers 



1 968,283 



2 3,163,025 



3 850,256 



-4 1,847,556 



5 524,756 



6 5,974,252 



7 1,079,379 



8 744,607 



9 1,782,294 



10 3,071,989 



11 3,994,184 



12 909,198 



13 1,081,548 



14 444,246 



Combined areas. 26,435,573* 

 Milkshed 36,184,460 



47.2 



♦Represents 71.9 percent of the combined purchases of the four dealers. 



Abird's-e>e viewof the actual prices received b>' Massachusetts shippers through- 

 out the milkshed can be had from figures 5 and 6. Dairymen in Area 9 were ap- 

 parently the best off and those in Area 3 the poorest. As would be expected an 

 extreme comparison of that sort presents a lop-sided view of the situation. Varia- 

 tion existed among all the areas to be sure, but for all that there existed a tendency 

 towards uniformity'. 



Uniformit\- might or might not be a desirable characteristic of shippers' prices, 

 depending on the particular t>pe of price that was being considered; e.g., F.O.B. 



Figure 5. Average Area Price (Dollars per Hundredweight) of Millt, 1935, Actual Basis 



