100 MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



assume that the same proportion of milk was carried by the 496 farmers 

 estimated as hauling, the daily cost of trucking on the main road for 

 their milk would be $176.53. This would make the total cost under a 

 co-operative system for the 276 farmers reporting $110.39, and for the 

 496 estimated as hauling, $311.09, showing a total daily saving over the 

 present individual system for the 176 farmers reporting of $32.87, or 

 $11,997.55 yearly. 



The savings under the trucking system for the 496 farmers estimated 

 as hauling would be daily $92.65, or yearly $33.817.25. 



It is recognized that these figures are only estimates and therefore 

 not necessarily a close statement of what actually could be done under 

 the co-operative system. It is also recognized that the geography of the 

 dairy districts will determine to a large extent whether a co-operative 

 trucking system on main roads can be installed to advantage. It is a 

 fact, however, that in every dairy, district there are main roads reaching 

 from the remotest farm to the point of shipment, and there are but few 

 of them where it would not be possible for a wagon starting from the re- 

 motest point to pick up milk from side roads and from lane- ways so 

 that by the time it reached the shipping point it would be carrying a full 

 load. On the return journey this same wagon can leave at the entrance 

 of the side roads and lane- ways the empty cans which it received from 

 the shipping point. 



Every investigation made of the business of country hauling has 

 shown that in most dairy districts there are excessive numbers of wagons 

 and horses being used by the dairy farmers for this purpose, the cost of 

 which must be charged by them in the price demanded for milk. Here 

 seems to be one of the branches of the producers' business which would 

 lend itself to a decided economy if, through a local committee, the terri- 

 tory could be districted and a trucking system established which would 

 provide for full loads rather than the small number of cans now carried 

 per wagon. 



The milk produced by the 176 farmers hauling their own milk was 

 25,058 quarts, or about 143 quarts per farm, which is 3^2 40-quart cans, 

 or 4% 32-quart cans, so that these farmers were actually carrying be- 

 tween 3 and 4 cans each. The average 2-horse farmers' wagon can 

 carry at least 30 cans, while trucks adapted for the purpose can carry 

 between 40 and 50 cans; consequently, instead of the 176 farmers daily 

 hauling milk to the shipping point, the same milk could be hauled in less 

 than 20 trucks. If we assume the milk produced by the 496 farmers 

 estimated as hauling from the entire producing territory is in the same, 

 proportion, instead of 496 wagons and horses and men the same milk 

 could be hauled on less than 56 trucks. 



