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were taken, amounting to 77,579 quarts, a wagon delivery of 560 quarts 

 per wagon would require only 139 wagons, instead of 278 now employed. 

 This would be a saving of 139 wagons, and would mean therefore a re- 

 duction of the present number of wagons by one-half. 



In the experiment in milk delivery conducted under the direction of 

 Dr. John R. Williams in 1911, he concluded that one truck drawn by two 

 horses and manned by three men could deliver an average of 3,200 quarts 

 of milk in one working day of eight hours. This was at the rate of 400 

 quarts per hour for 3 men, or 133 quarts per man hour. In some cities 

 where the distributing business is in the hands of companies having almost 

 a monopoly, the use of two horses on a wagon and two men has greatly 

 increased the number of quarts delivered per man hour. Under a cen- 

 tralized system where the business of milk delivery was in the hands of 

 one company it seems fair to believe that in many sections of the city 

 larger delivery wagons than the one-horse wagons now used could be 

 used to advantage, drawn by two horses and operated by two or more 

 men, with an increased volume of milk per man hour. 



The figures given above in our estimate are based on actual business 

 conditions as at present existing in some cities. 



HAULING FROM RAILROAD PLATFORM TO MILK PLANT 



X 



Many milk factories are so located in the city that they are some 

 distance from the railroad terminals at which milk is received, conse- 

 quently it becomes necessary to employ trucks for carting milk from the 

 railroad platform to the milk factory. Considerable expense attaches it- 

 self to the labor of loading and unloading these trucks, even though the 

 actual distance traveled between the railroad and the milk plant is short. 

 The variation in the distance and in the time consumed makes accurate 

 comparisons of costs impossible. 



It is of value, however, to compare the cost of this work among the 

 different companies in our list, for the reason that some economies can be 

 secured through the trucking of milk under a centralized system, as com- 

 pared with trucking the same milk under a competitive system. The 

 comparisons of this work as performed by the different companies are 

 shown in the Table No. 60. 



