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very little. The data for 19301" and 1932 consisted of the daily volume shipped 

 in June, while in 1935 the volume was average annual. This difference in averages 

 accounts for the seemingly greater volume of milk shipped in the two earlier years, 

 for June is the month of highest production. On the whole, however, there is 

 very little difference in these three pictures, and it does seem that there was very 

 little shift in the source of milk as far as Massachusetts was concerned during 

 these years. 



In this state in 1935 the locations of 107 flat-plan producers, 231 rating-plan 

 producers and 260 use-plan producers were known (Figure 6). The map shows 

 that flat-plan producers predominated northeast of the city and were relatively 

 near to the market. Many use-plan producers were located in the southwest, 

 although west of the city there were about equal numbers of use- and rating-plan 

 producers. 



Figure 6. Location of Producers according to Price Plans, 1935. 



In 1935 the average daily shipment of milk to Worcester by 676 Massachusetts 

 producers was 194.4 pounds. Table 5 shows that about 30 percent of the farms 

 produced 100 pounds or less daily, 35 percent produced 101-200 pounds, and 

 that the percentage of the farms decreased thereafter as the production increased, 

 although there was a larger number of farms producing over 500 pounds than 

 401-500 pounds. The number of farms producing 101-200 pounds daily was so 

 large that this class shipped the greatest percentage of milk. 



l^Lindsey, A. H., op. cit. for 1932 data. The data for 1930 are from unpublished data of the 

 same study. 



