June, 1940] 



Transportation of N. H. Milk 



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the mileage which individual producers would have to haul milk has been 

 increased somewhat (from 2,956 to 3,052 ).i 



Not only mileage, but also the number of trucks has been reduced 

 greatly and therefore the amount of milk carried per truck has been 

 much increased. This makes it possible to increase total gross income 

 per truck over that formerly received, while at the same time charges 

 per hundred-weight to producers can be reduced. 



Although there are several approaches to the problem of determining 

 the relative magnitude of the savings which might be attained in the 

 area under study, by this first stage of reorganization, the data lend 

 themselves to one method in particular. This method involves the ap- 



Table II — Mileage traveled by commercial truck routes and self-haulers. 



1 While no precise rule has been followed, a rough procedure in making reorganizations 

 has been to require a producer who lived more than one mile off the route and who produced 

 less than 150 pounds of milk daily to bring that milk to the main route, rather than to send the 

 commercial truck over the extra distance. Should producers so located object to this procedure, 

 perhaps a commercial truck would call at the farm but only for an additional cwt. charge. 

 See Brown, A. A., "Milk Cartage in the Southwick-Agawam Area of the Springfield Milkshed," 

 Mass. Agric. Exp. Sta. Bui. 363, 1939, for a suggested schedule for such "off-route" producers. 



