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The farmer should ask the consumer to pay for that, and it is no more 

 than right that the consumer should pay for the refrigeration when they 

 insist upon having cold milk. 



Mr. Stevens: That may be due to local conditions. The line which 

 I represent does not ship milk to Philadelphia. We do ship milk to New 

 York. We start a train from Geneva which carries milk into the City of 

 New York. The cars are arranged for refrigeration, and it is a special 

 train, used for nothing else, and the charge from Geneva to New York, 

 about 350 miles, and taking the empty cans back, and refrigeration all 

 the way, is seven-tenths of one cent per quart. 



Mr. Eavenson: That is charged for the whole year? 



Mr. Stevens: The whole year. 



Mr. Eavenson: We are charged eight months. 



Mr. Stevens : At present we are icing the cars, and you must remem- 

 ber that you have ice eight months of the year, and that milk is brought out 

 at three cents a quart in Geneva and delivered at New York at seven- 

 tenths of a cent, which makes the cost in New York three and seven- 

 tenths cents a quart, and it sells for nine. That is where to find the leak. 

 The leak is somewhere between three and seven-tenths cents and nine 

 cents. 



Mrs. Smith: If there are no further questions the meeting is ad- 

 journed. 



