Grain-Feed Requirements by Towns as Related to Location 



As noted previously, county data are unfortunately somewhat too 

 general for detailed locational analysis. Hence, for milk cows and laying 

 hens, estimates of grain-feed requirements by towns have been derived, 

 based on data from the State Tax Commission.* It would be possible to 

 derive similar estimates for some other classes of livestock by the methods 

 used for the preceding. f However, tax data do not include young chickens, 

 commercial broilers, or turkeys, and town census data were not available, 

 so one of the major grain-feed consuming classes of livestock (chickens 

 raised for meat or replacements) could not be taken into account. This 

 omission will certainly alter some of the conclusions which could be drawn 

 about the grain-feed requirements of particular towns from the data shown 

 in Figures 2 and 3. 



Table 4 lists the towns, by areas, requiring annually 500 tons or over 

 of grain-feed for milk cows and 1,000 tons or over of grain-feed for lay- 

 ing hens. The principal concentrations of these towns using large amounts of 

 grain-feed for milk cows are in the Connecticut River Valley and the Mer- 

 rimack River Valley and South central New Hampshire. For laying hens, 

 the greatest concentrations of towns using large amounts of grain-feed 

 are in the Merrimack River Valley, South central, and Southeastern New 

 Hampshire. 



Delivery Routes as Related to Volume 



Inasmuch as more than four-fifths of the tonnage of grain-feeds sold 

 by a typical retail outlet is likely to be delivered, the territory so served 

 and the routes established are inherent in studying the question of volume. 

 Data such as those presented in Table 5 illustrate some of the comparative 

 expectations of density of stops, travel distances, and average purchases 

 per unit in various areas of the State. Comparing two counties, Rocking- 



Table 5. Annual Tonnage Requirements of Grain-Feed, by Counties, 

 Related to Area Characteristics 



1 As of March 1, 1953. Source: N. H. Higtiway Department. 



2 Total number of farms reported in 1950 census. 



''Total of dairy, poultry, livestock farms, general farms predominantly livestock, plus one-hall 

 number of general farms, crop and livestock. 



* Fortieth Annual Report of the New Hampshire State Tax Commission, Tax 

 Year of 1950. 



t Proration of the U.S.D.A. series among towns in proportion to numbers reported 

 for tax purposes times assumed level of grain consumption. 



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