xviii BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



The price received at the door, as given, varied from two 

 to seven cents per quart. The following replies will illus- 

 trate the price received when the milk was shipped to 

 contractors : — 



Barre. — Sixteen cents per can at railroad station or factory. 

 Some have to pay one cent for cartage, some two cents, according 

 to distance. 



Belchertown. — Five cents per quart to local customers. To 

 milk contractors, delivered on cars, twenty cents per eight and one- 

 half quart can. 



Berkley. — Retail price at door, four cents per quart. Con- 

 tractor's price, three cents for May. Now it is two and one-half 

 cents. 



Bolton. — Fifteen and seven-eighths cents per eight and one- 

 half quart can to contractors, and five cents per quart if retailed in 

 the villages. 



Danvers. — Twenty-eight cents per eight and one-half quart can. 



Hardwick. — All milk delivered at car; and, allowing one cent 

 per can for delivery, and taking out the surplus from the eighteen 

 cents, the price of a can of milk which holds eight and one-half 

 quarts, we find that one of these cans brings the producer the whole 

 amount of a fraction less than fourteen cents. 



Harvard. — Graded price at depot, twenty cents per eight and 

 one-half quart can for May ; surplus taken out by contractors, 

 two and one-quarter cents ; cost of getting milk to depot, from 

 one to three cents per can, according to distance. That would 

 leave the milk producers about sixteen cents per can, on a fair 

 average, or a trifle less than two cents per quart at the door. 



Leominster. — Two and ten-seventeenths cents to peddlers for 

 home use. To milk contractors, seventeen cents at door for eight 

 and one-half quart can. The surplus for May not yet returned. 

 Probably one and a half cents off per can, as in April. 



Littleton. — The milk produced in this town is sold principally 

 to contractors for the Boston market. The price at the door for 

 May Avas two and three-tenths cents per quart for three-fourths of 

 the quantity sold, and for the other one-fourth of the quantity sold, 

 one and one-tenth cents per quart. 



Montague. — Seventeen and eight-tenths cents per eight and 

 one-half quart can. 



North Brookjield. — Milk goes mostly to Boston. Will net in 

 June about sixteen cents per can at car. 



Norfolk. — Two and seven-tenths cents per quart at car. Price 

 at door varies according to distance from station. No surplus. 



