IX 



COST OF COUNTRY HAULING 



Each day a large amount of labor on the part of dairy farmers and 

 horses is expended in hauling milk from the farms to the point of ship- 

 ment. For the purpose of securing information as to the number of men 

 and horses employed in this work, and the points from which milk is 

 shipped, a form of questionnaire was prepared and mailed to all of the 

 778 dairy farms producing milk for Rochester. Replies were received 

 by mail from 276 producers, from which the following information was 

 obtained : 



Number of producers 276 



Producers' own wagon to railroad platform 163 



Producers' own wagon to Rochester 10 



By truck with other farmers to railroad platform 6 



By truck with other farmers to Rochester 64 



By dealers' truck to Rochester 13 



Shipping to Rochester by rail 119 



Shipping to Rochester by trolley 68 



Amount of milk produced daily 35,565 Qts. 



Amount of milk received from producers' own wagon to railroad plat- 

 form 22,799 " 



Amount of milk received by producers' own wagon to Rochester 1,492 



Amount of milk received by truck with other producers to railroad 



platform 767 



Amount of milk received by truck with other producers to Rochester. . 7,313 



Amount of milk received by dealers' trucks to Rochester 1,630 ' 



Amount of milk received by railroad to Rochester 17,420 ' 



Amount of milk received by trolley to Rochester 7,710 ' 



Amount of milk delivered by producers living on trolley line (18 men) 1,564 ' 



Although all of the 778 producers did not reply to the questionnaire, 

 the replies received from 276 of them were from every dairy district, 

 and it is believed that these replies were sufficient in number and suffi- 

 ciently well distributed to furnish a fair estimate as to the labor per- 

 formed in the handling of milk from the dairy farms to the point of ship- 

 ment. It will be noted from the table that 163 producers hauled milk in 

 their own wagons to the railroad platform, either the steam railroad or 

 the trolley railroad, while 10 producers hauled milk from their farms 

 directly into the City of Rochester, and 6 producers hauled milk to the 

 railroad platform with other farmers. The number of trucks hauling 

 milk to Rochester owned by farmers or owned by dealers was not ob- 

 tained. It is therefore not possible to form an estimate as to whether 

 these trucks were fully loaded, or whether they represented less than a 

 full load. If we give attention especially to the hauling of milk on the 

 country end of the line by the farmers themselves from the reports of the 

 inspectors, it is estimated that the average distance traveled by each 

 farmer is 2 miles, and that the length of time required for taking milk 

 out of his milk house, loading it onto his wagon, hitching up his horse, 



