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and one-half from wagons ; 224 cans daily are raised in 

 Cambridge, and 504 cans are sold by producers ; wagon 

 milk comes in from Waltham, Lexington, Arlington, Bel- 

 mont, Concord, Lincoln, Wayland, Burlington, Dover, 

 South Sudbury, Bedford, Holliston, Billerica, Needham, 

 Sharon and Southborough ; there is a tendency on the part 

 of the big contractors to absorb the retail routes ; con- 

 densed milk has lately replaced fresh milk to some extent. 



Worcester: population, 118,421; consumption of milk, 

 34,000 quarts daily ; 61 per cent, of the dealers are middle- 

 men . 



Lawrence : population, 62,559 ; daily consumption of 

 milk, 24,000 (marts ; about 40 per cent, is sold by pro- 

 ducers ; the quality is improving. 



Lynn : population, 68,513 ; daily consumption of milk, 

 22,950 quarts : about two-fifths is retailed by the producers ; 

 there is a tendency to concentration among the dealers. 



Holyoke : population, 45,712 ; consumption of milk daily, 

 17,500 quarts ; a large proportion is sold by non-producers ; 

 the quality is improving. 



Some years ago, in some figures for the national department 

 of agriculture, the writer of this report endeavored to ascer- 

 tain Avhether there was any law of average underlying the 

 consumption of milk in the larger cities of New England, 

 with the following result (the figures represent hundredths 

 of a pint per capita of population) : — 



Boston, 96 



Hartford, 94 



Nashua, 84 



Burlington, . . 1.00 



Haverhill, 90 



The following is deduced from the above figures from 



Massachusetts cities : — 



Somerville, 69 



Lowell, 63 



New Bedford, . . . 86 



Cambridge, 79 



Worcester, 57 



Lawrence, 76 



Lynn, 67 



Ilolvoke, 77 



