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were pasteurized out of a total of 82,075 quarts received by the City of 

 Rochester at the time these figures were obtained. This is 57% of the 

 entire Rochester supply, therefore the costs for pasteurizing milk are 

 costs representing the pasteurization of only 57%, and would be much 

 larger annually if all of the milk of Rochester were pasteurized by the 

 present system. In presenting figures for the centralized system we are 

 assuming that the entire Rochester supply of 82,075 quarts is pasteurized 

 by modern apparatus. 



The saving per quart under the methods used in the centralized sys- 

 tem as compared with the present Rochester methods of pasteurizing is 

 .000750. The annual saving by the adoption of the centralized method 

 over the present costs for milk which is both pasteurized and cooled and 

 for the milk which is cooled only is $21,404.05. If a pasteurizing ordi- 

 nance were put in force in Rochester without any effort to centralize the 

 business, and the same pasteurizing costs which exist at present were ap- 

 plied to the entire supply the total cost for pasteurizing under present 

 conditions by the present methods would be $25,192.00 yearly. 



BOTTLING AND CAPPING 



The figures presented ' for bottling and capping include all of the 

 Rochester milk companies which are bottling milk, both in quart bottles 

 and in pint bottles. The total number of bottles which are filled daily, 

 both quarts and pints, is 83,503. For this work there are employed in 

 Rochester 224 persons for a period of 286.9 hours, who bottle and cap 

 bottles at the rate of 291 per hour at a cost of .001351 per bottle, or 

 $41,182.95 yearly. A comparison of these figures with the figures ob- 

 tained from other companies is shown in Table No. 57. 



TABLE NO. 57 

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