June, 1938] The Transportation of New Hampshire Milk 



carefully and in considerable detail in an attempt to determine their 

 amount and the bases upon which they were set. 



To a future publication are left analyses of route duplication and re- 

 organization possibilities. Such reorganization often involves reloca- 

 tion of plant facilities and allocation of producers between markets. 

 This phase of the milk supply problem is now being studied and will 

 appear at an early date. 



Figure 2. 



Outline map of New 

 Hampshire. Black 

 areas show the Lan- 

 caster and Nashua 

 milksheds. The state 

 was divided into two 

 sections in order to 

 analyze the truck 

 routes. This divi- 

 sion is indicated by 

 the heavy black line. 



Transportation of Milk to Lancaster 



Considerably more than one-half of the New Hampshire milk carried 

 on commercial trucking routes goes to stations supplying the Boston 

 market. Therefore, a typical Boston supply area, that surrounding 

 Lancaster, is given first consideration. 



Lancaster is a town of some 2,900 population, situated in the northern 

 part of the state in the Connecticut Kiver valley. Local milk distribu- 

 tion is entirely in the hands of producer-distributors and so does not 



