PRODUCT-COSTS TO MILK DEALERS 9 



consistency of having high cost of supplies. In the same array the dealer with the 

 maximum range in monthly product-cost was thirteenth. 



Dealers tended to hold the same relative positions with respect to product -cost 

 throughout the year. Consistent high costs were just as characteristic as per- 

 sistent low ones, although the extremes were more pronounced. 



The schematic diagram, figure 4, gives the monthly rank of each distributor 

 according to the group in which his product-cost placed him. 



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Group 4 



Figure 4. Sixteen Use-Plan Dealers Ranked According to Consistency of Position in an 



Array of Product-Costs 



Monthly— 1935 



