PRODUCT-COSTS TO MILK DEALERS 



Table 1. — Average Product-Cost, Average Daily Purchases, and 



Percentage of Fluid Milk Received in the 



Springfield Market Area, 1935 



Product-Costs to Dealers 



The 1935 average product-cost to dealers buying on some basis other than a 

 flat plan varied from $2.31 per hundredweight (4.9 cents per quart) to $3.04 per 

 hundredweight (6.53 cents per quart) — a range of 73 cents per hundredweight 

 (1.5 cents per quart). (Table 2.) The range in monthly cost of purchases among 

 the dealers was lowest in February, when it was 58 cents per hundred pounds, 

 and highest in June at $1.15 per hundred pounds. The monthly data are shown 

 in table 3. 



Table 2. — Product-Cost of 16 Use-Plan Dealers 

 Average, 1935 



