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neighborhood. The greater portion of Amherst's milk is distributed by 

 dealers, while that of Walpole is marketed by the producers themselves. 



Haverhill and Pittsfield, industrial centers of approximately 30,000 

 population each — the former in the northeastern part of the State, in 

 the midst of good dairy farms which supply the requirements of the city, 

 and the latter in the heart of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts 

 surrounded mainly by the homes of summer residents and drawing its 

 milk supply from a greater distance — form the second group. 



Springfield and Worcester, commercial and manufacturing cities of over 

 100,000 population, constitute the third group, the one located in the Con- 

 necticut valley, where the land is given over chiefly to the raising of 

 tobacco, onions and other intensive crops, while the other is situated in 

 the center of Massachusetts' best dairying county. Naturally, in Worces- 

 ter and Haverhill a rather large portion of the milk is distributed by the 

 producers themselves. In some cases the producers distribute not only 

 the product of their own dairies but also that of neighboring farmers, thus 

 in a measure becoming middlemen. 



Table I. — Firms interviewed, classified by Location and Quantity of Retail 

 and Wholesale Milk, Cream and Skim Milk handled daily. 



In each locality sufiicient typical distributors were interviewed to insure 

 the reliability of the figures and the representative nature of the facts. 

 The distributors interviewed and the volume of business represented were 

 as follows : — 



