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Only two producers in the section were paid on a Grade A basis. Both of them 

 were on-route. 



A record of butterfat tests was available for 105 producers in the section, 38 

 of whom were off-route. No butterfat records were available in 33 cases, 10 of 

 them off-route producers. Practically all of the lots for which no test was available 

 were paid for on a flat plan basis. The percentage of producer deliveries with no 

 recorded test was about the same for the off-route group as for the section, 20.8 

 and 23.9 respectively. The only noticeable differences between the butterfat 

 test for all producers in the section and for the off-route group were the limits 

 of the modal class and the percentage of lots below it. The modal class for 

 butterfat test throughout the section was 3.75-3.99, with 30 producers in the 

 class, representing deliveries of 31.4 percent of all producers. For the off-route 

 group the modal class was 3.5-3.74, with 14 producers or 36.8 percent of the 

 group. The percentage of producers below the modal class was much higher for 

 the section (30.4) than for the off-route group (13.1). The off-route producers 

 apparently had cows producing lower testing milk than the section as a whole. 



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Figure 1. Location of Farms Sliipping Milk to Dealers in llic Springfield Market Area. 



Markets of Wholesale Producers 



Producers in the section, for all practical purposes, sell in one market — the 

 Springfield, Holyoke, and Chicopec area. Distribution activities so generally 

 radiate from the plant to near-by towns that a number of towns and cities com- 

 prise the general market. Figure 2 shows some of the towns in which the various 



