MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 115 



people employed in the milk business amounts to $2,029.51. In this table, 

 for example, also appears the cost of bottle washing under present condi- 

 tions, which is $127.55; the cost of washing milk cans, $47.69; the cost 

 of pasteurizing, $39.84; the cost of bottling and capping, $112.83; the 

 cost of delivering milk at retail, $712.58, for one day. 



This is the cost of labor only, the other cost items appearing in later 

 tabulations. 



It has often been alleged that the cost of performing the work of 

 milk distribution is smaller for the small dealer than it is for the large 

 dealer, and therefore that it is an advantage to any city to have its milk 

 distributed by small dealers rather than by large dealers because it is 

 more economical. 



In this survey it has been believed that the city would expect to re- 

 ceive information on this particular point and, for this reason, the figures 

 for the cost of doing business for dealers handling 500 quarts or less, for 

 dealers handling 501 to 1,000 quarts, and for dealers handling from 1,000 

 upwards, have been separately tabulated for the entire operations per- 

 formed by these dealers so far as their labor is concerned ; for example, 

 : dealers handling under 500 quarts furnish to the City of Rochester a total 

 of 23,006 quarts of milk daily, while dealers handling from 501 to 1,000 

 quarts handle a total of 15,786 quarts daily. The balance of the milk 

 supply, amounting to 38,283 quarts, is handled by dealers whose business 

 is in excess of 1,000 quarts a day. 



For these three groups of dealers the figures have been tabulated in 

 I a new form by using the number of quarts of milk received by each group 

 as a divisor. The cost of performing each of the labor operations by 

 each of these groups of dealers has been divided by the number of quarts 

 of milk received by each group. In this way the unit cost per quart for 

 performing each operation has been based on the number of quarts 

 handled by each group. These figures are shown in Table No. 51. 





