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porting, twenty-five retail the product of their dairies, while 

 forty-seven do not. From the answers received it appears 

 to be more economical to distribute through a middleman, 

 especially where the points of production and distribution 

 are widely separated. The middleman has the advantage of 

 already maintaining an establishment in the city and of run- 

 ning regular retail routes on which the certified milk can be 

 distributed quite economically. Some of these distributors of 

 certified milk seem to charge the producer a rather high rate 

 for their services. Many city dealers buy market milk from 

 farmers and receive from 14 to 19 cents a gallon to cover the 

 cost of freight, bottling, and distribution, besides giving them 

 their profit. Certified milk is nearly always bottled at the 

 farm, so that the expense of handling in the city is much smaller. 

 Figures submitted to this department, however, show out of 50 

 cents a gallon paid by consumers for certified milk from one 

 farm, the producer got 26 cents, the freight was 4 cents, and 

 the middleman charged 20 cents a gallon for his services in 

 distributing the product. Another dairy receives 12 cents out 

 of a retail price of 15 cents a quart, leaving the distributor 12 

 cents a gallon. In one case the middle- 

 man received 5 cents a quart for distribu- 

 tion, while the other received 3 cents. 



THE FUTURE OF CERTIFIED MILK (Kelly) 



There is no doubt that from a sanitary 

 standpoint certified milk is constantly im- 

 proving, and it will undoubtedly continue r , Fl( f < 44 -~ The 



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to lead all classes of milk as a rood for in- pa ii suitable for the 

 fants. It seems almost imperative, how- P r du( ?i n of certi ' 



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ever, that business principles be more 



closely applied to the production of certified milk, so that the 



price may be kept as low as possible to the consumer and still 



