Table 4. Numbers of Grain-Consuming Livestock and Estimated 

 Feed Requirements, New Hampshire, 1949 and 1953 



1 Preceding figures do not include miscellaneous poultry or pets, for which yearly 

 figures on numbers are not available. 



- Do not include small amounts of other grains, not separately reported for New 

 Hampshire by U.S.D.A. Agricultural Marketing Service. 



3. Assembling, Milling, and Distributing to Retail Outlets 



IT WAS NOT a purpose of this study minutely to analyze the feed in- 

 dustry from the standpoint of mill location and operation or milling 

 practices and costs, but it is pertinent to the study to observe briefly such 

 locational and institutional factors as bear upon the pattern of feed dis- 

 tribution and handling within the State. This section briefly treats assem- 

 bling, milling, and distributing to retail outlets before proceeding to policies, 

 practices, terms, and retail outlet characteristics. 



The gathering of all the ingredients which go into modern grain-feeds, 

 the blending of these into a large number of specialized forms with con- 

 sistent analysis, and the delivery of grain-feeds to various distribution points 

 in proper quantities and at the correct prices is indeed a highly complex 

 business. It appears that the corporations and cooperatives servicing the 



