N. H. Agri. Experiment Station [Station Bull. 307 



ceaselessly and any period selected would include some unstable condi- 

 tions. 



In order to estimate the percentage of capacity to which equipment 

 and personnel were used, the month of June was selected. Ordinarily 

 this is the month of peak milk jiroduction in New Hampshire and it 

 would, therefore, utilize tmu-kin^^ farililies to the greatest extent of any 

 period of the year. Figure 1 shows that in 1937 average deliveries 

 of milk i)er day, per dairy, to handlers at Boston were highest in the 

 month of June. While these figures include producers throughout the 

 Boston milkshed. they give an indication of the seasonality of milk 

 production in New Hampshire. 



Figure 1. 



Aveiag'e deliveries of 



milk per day, per dairy, 



to handlers in Boston, 



1937. ( See Appendix 



Table I) 



It was felt desirable to indicate graphically for at least two markets 

 all deliveries of milk by any agency in order to give a more complete 

 picture of the flow of milk from fai'ms to eountry stations or city plants. 

 This resulted in a number of routes being indicated for i)roducers de- 

 livering tiieir own milk. From the standi)oint of analyzing trucking 

 charges, these producers are not of great interest ; but they do. never- 

 theless, nuike uji a pai't of the trucking pieture. C'oneeivably. if reor- 

 ganization of truck routes could take place in such ;i way that rates 

 were lowered, some of these producers might cease hauling tiieir own 

 milk. 



The two mai'kets selected as indicating typical triu-kiiig situations 

 are Nashua and Lancastei-, the former a local market and the latter 

 the site Of two collection stations foi- milk moving to P>oston. In addi- 

 tion to iiiilicating ditfei-ent trnckin<i iialiti'iis because of ditVei-ent mar- 

 ket outlets, the two ai'cas. one in the south of the state and the other in 

 tile north, show the influences of ditVcreui supply areas. Figure 2 

 shows the l^ancaster and Nashua milkshcils. 



After a detailed presentation of conditions in these two typical areas, 

 the characteristics of the conimei-cial truck routes throughout the whole 

 state are analyzed. While data I'egarding the vai"ious chai'acteristies 

 of thes).' routes are jirescnled. most of the attention is j)laced upon the 

 tniekiiii^- charges levied iipmi piodiieei's. These charges are analyzed 



