Average Size of Delivery. 



Available data indicate considerable variation in size of delivery, 

 both to individual farms and on the basis of retail unit averages for all 

 deliveries. In an earlier part of this publication it was pointed out that 

 any feed distributor is likely to make the majority of his stops or sales 

 (number, but not necessarily tonnage) to small units. A proof of this 

 premise is offered by data on the 183 farms obtaining delivery service in 

 the Gilmanton-Barnstead area (Table 12). 



Table 12. Average Weekly Use of Grain-Feed on 183 Forms Obtaining 

 Delivery Service in the Giimanton-Bornstead Area 



1 Mostly delivered weekly. 

 - Average. 



Seventy-seven percent of the farms (or route stops) involved used 10 

 bags or less, but accounted for only 18 percent of the total quantity. In con- 

 trast, the 13 percent of the farms using over 20 bags weekly bought about 

 two-thirds of the total quantity. For this latter group, the average nuinber 

 of bags delivered per farm was 56. 



Table 13. Variation in Average Size of Deliveries to 183 Farms 

 in the Gilmanton-Barnstead Area by Stores 



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