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THE CONTROL OF THE MILK SUPPLY 



who obtain their milk, through other milk sellers in the district, from 

 country farms. Thirdly, there are, perhaps, a score of milk-shops 

 which obtain part or all their milk from town cowsheds situated 

 within the district. Speaking generally, therefore, it may be said 

 that about 235 of the 261 milk sellers in Finsbury obtain their 

 milk wholly or partly from country cowsheds, whereas about a 

 score obtain their milk wholly or partly from town cowsheds. 



The fourteen contractors deal with some iioo farms situated 

 at varying distances from London. The following table and map 

 sets out the main facts with regard to the distribution of the towns 

 and villages where the farms are situated which send in milk : — 



Contractor. 



c 



D 



E 



F 

 G 

 H 

 I 



J 

 K 



L 

 M 



N 



Totals 



No. of 

 Farms. 



13 

 43 



3 

 400 

 100 



30 



3 



58 



70 



70 



I 



60 



60 



200 



Counties in which Farms are chiefly situated. 



Derby, Essex 



Wilts, Derby, Berks, Somerset, Norfolk, Hants, 

 Worcester, Dorset, Oxford, Gloucester, Cam- 

 bridge ........ 



Stafford, Derby ....... 



Berks, Wilts, Bucks 



Leicester, Dorset, Warwick, Cheshire, Suffolk, 

 Somerset ........ 



Norfolk, Essex, Cambridge, Derby, Leicester 



Derby, Stafford, Northampton .... 



Leicester, Warwick, Stafford, Derby, Herts . 



Devon, Dorset, Wilts, Derby, Stafford . 



Stafford, Derby, Leicester ..... 



Middlesex ........ 



Derby, Leicester, Bucks ..... 



Leicester, Middlesex, Stafford, Derby, Bucks 



Bedford, Gloucester, Derby, Cambridge, Essex, 

 Norfolk, Bucks, Stafford, Hunts, Leicester, 

 Warwick ........ 



No. of Milk 



Sellers 

 supplied in 

 Finsbury. 



21 

 31 



7 

 16 



9 



24 



4 



2 

 2 



32 



185 



In addition to the farms dealing with contractors, some 70 farms, 

 situated in like manner in different parts of the country, deal direct 

 with 2 1 of the larger milk sellers, and in this way about 60 shops 

 are supplied. Hence, about 1200 farms send milk more or less 

 regularly into this one district of London. 



The country sources, as will be seen from the attached map, 

 show a characteristic distribution. Much of the milk is derived 

 from the great milk-producing counties of Derbyshire, Stafford- 

 shire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire, and very little 

 appears to come from the home counties. To furnish some idea 

 of distance, straight measurements have been marked on the map 



