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ployment of men who are not members of the administrative staff, but 

 who are in charge of such operations as pasteurizing and other plant 

 operations, livery stable, wagon house, and other departments of the 

 business. Their salaries do not come under the head of ordinary labor 

 or of administrative salaries. In the City of Rochester the majority of 

 milk dealers do not employ such men; only four of the larger milk com- 

 panies have them on their pay roll. The number of quarts of milk repre- 

 sented by these companies is 20,236 quarts. The number of man hours 

 which these superintendents work is 73 daily, representing 277 quarts per 

 man hour, at a cost of .002440 per quart. The yearly cost is $18,023.70. 

 Under a centralized system the number of superintendents necessary 

 would be reduced because the departments over which they exercised 

 their authority would be centralized. It is estimated that not more than 

 four superinendents would be required. Work of superintendents has 

 been tabulated in Table No. 66. 



TABLE No. 66 

 SUPERINTENDENCE 



It will be noted in Table No. 66 that company No. 8 handles 43,000 

 quarts daily with one superintendent ; No. 4 handles 65,800 quarts daily 

 with four superintendents. It seems a fair basis to assume that the total 

 milk supply of Rochester of 82,075 quarts could be handled under the 

 supervision of four superintendents working for 10 hours daily (five hours 

 Sundays) or a period of 65 hours a week. The present Rochester wage 

 scale is .676. With larger responsibility these men undoubtedly would 

 have to have as much as .769 per hour, which amounts to $50.00 per 

 week. This would make a cost under the centralized system for super- 

 intendence of .000348 per quart, or $10,428.05 per year. 



