Table 32. Three State 1 Local Can and Tank Pickup Rates, 

 Showing Distances from Farms to Plants and Numbers of Farms 



at Each Distance 



Can Haul 

 Approximate Mileage 



1 New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont. 



2. Rail and Truck Rates 

 to the Greater Boston 

 Marketing Area 



Although 



this study was focused 

 on the movement of milk from farm 

 to plant, transportation of milk to 

 Boston plants from the region stud- 

 ied is sometimes in the can or tank 



trucks which pick up the milk at 

 the farms, and sometimes involves 

 transfer from those trucks to larger, 

 over-the-road tank trucks (with a ca- 

 pacity such as 4,000 gallons) or to 

 rail tank cars or rail cars hauling 

 cans, for completion of a trip of, 

 let us say, 150 to 200 miles to the 

 Greater Boston Marketing Area. For 



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