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that it will not be possible to sell it in competition with the ice 

 cream produced in factories closer by. 



The following is the rate of charges made by an express 

 company on five gallons of ice cream on its lines through the 

 state of Iowa in 1916. To these figures should be added 10 or 

 15 cents for the return of the empty container. 



Cents 



Up to 40 miles 40 



From 41 to 50 miles 44 



From 51 to 60 miles 48 



From 6 1 to 80 miles 52 



From 81 to 90 miles 56 



From 91 to no miles 60 



From in to 1 20 miles 68 



From 121 to 140 miles 72 



From 141 to 150 miles 76 



From 151 to 200 miles 84 



From 201 to 240 miles 92 



II. Cost of City Delivery. The cost of city delivery is 

 governed largely by local conditions. Great losses have been 

 sustained by ice cream manufacturers due to an inferior system 

 of city deliveries. Often the city is not properly divided among 

 the various drivers. At times the clerk who makes out the 

 delivery sheet (Form XXVI) is not sufficiently familiar with the 

 city so that he can make out the shortest routing. Some con- 

 cerns have no definite time for making deliveries, but deliver 

 whenever they have an order and thus several wagons from the 

 same factory may cover the same territory. 



Manufacturers engaged in the retail ice cream business 

 usually confine sales to not less than a quart, and the amount 

 ordered is generally delivered by the manufacturer. The cost of 

 making each delivery, including the return of the empty con- 

 tainer, often amounts to from 10 cents to 15 cents. This ad- 

 ditional cost should be added to the price of the first quart, 

 as the following scale of prices will illustrate: i quart, 60 cents; 

 2 quarts, $1.00; 3 quarts, $1.40; 4 quarts, $1.80. 



