DAIRYING 93 



838. Various estimates have been made of the way in which 

 the cost of milk from the farm to the consumer is divided. 



N. Y.* Boston** 

 cents cents 



Paid the farmer 2.75 4.4 



Cost of transportation 5 .69 



City delivery 4.75 3.20 



Total per quart 8.00 8.30 



839. According to the investigation of prices of transpor- 

 tation and delivering city milk reported by the Secretary of 

 Agriculture for the last week in June, 1910, the average price 

 paid by the consumer for milk in 78 cities was 8 cents per quart, 

 with the following prices in different sections of the country : 



Cents 



North Atlantic and N. Central States 7.5 



Western States 8.9 



South Central States 9.1 



South Atlantic . . 9.3 



CARE OF DAIRY PRODUCTS BY THE CONSUMER. 



840. Much has been written concerning the care of milk 

 on the farm. Printed rules and regulations have been distributed 

 to the producers of milk, calling their attention to the effect 

 which the condition of the cows, the cans, the barnyard, the 

 stable, etc., etc., will have on the purity and the keeping quality 

 of the milk after it leaves their hands. 



Prevention of all kinds of defects in milk is certainly better 

 than any atempts to cure them, but the care and handling of 

 milk by the consumer is a matter that the producer is not re- 

 sponsible for, and he may not therefore be the cause of the sour 

 milk in every case. This is shown by the fact that the same lot 

 of milk may be distributed to a number of families, and some of 

 them complain it does not keep well, while others have no fault 



*Winslow Production and Handling of Clean Milk. 

 **Farmers' Bui. 469, 0. B. S. 



