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MILK SURVEY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER 



if these losses were reduced. The actual condition of affairs in the City 

 of Rochester has been determined by summarizing the amount of money 

 paid yearly for new glass bottles by the Rochester companies which keep 

 such accounts and applying this same item of expense at the same rate to 

 those Rochester companies which do not keep accounts. This method of 

 estimate it is believed is entirely fair for the reason that the smaller milk 

 dealers who do not keep accounts undoubtedly sustain greater losses on 

 milk bottles and are put to a greater expense in the purchase of milk 

 bottles at retail than are the larger milk dealers. 



The total number of milk bottles handled by the City of Rochester 

 each day, including quarts, pints and half pints, is 83,503, and annually 

 this amounts to 30,478,595. The total number of bottles purchased by all 

 of the dealers in Rochester annually is 1,332,432. At this rate each glass 

 bottle in Rochester makes 22.8 trips before it is broken or lost. The ex- 

 pense of replacing these broken and lost bottles must 'be paid for by each 

 quart of milk sold, and amounts to .002720 per quart under present con- 

 ditions. This is an annual expense on bottles for the entire city of* 

 $68,196. 



Similar figures have been obtained from all of the other companies in 

 the list and are presented in Table No. 76. 



TABLE NO. 76 

 LOSS ON BOTTLES 



From Table No. 76 it appears that the number of trips made by the 

 glass bottles of Rochester before they are broken or lost is greater than 

 the number of trips made by bottles from companies Nos. 1, 2 and 3. On 

 the other hand, company No. 8 handles its business in a manner which 



