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BULLETIN 456, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



operated by the railroads or fast freight refrigerator companies, to 

 move the shipments of butter from the creameries to eastern markets. 

 The butter is collected from the creameries along the line in iced cars 

 by " pick-up " service, and at junction or division points entire car- 

 loads are made up. The larger creameries which produce a carload 

 or more of butter a week usually ship in carload lots directly from 

 their plants. In distributing butter out of terminal markets such as 

 Chicago, the various railroads extending into the South and East 

 operate regular scheduled refrigerated package cars to certain cities 

 where bulk cars are broken for distribution. In the more sparsely 

 developed dairy sections and particularly with the smaller creameries. 



Fig. 12. — The butter exported to tropical countries is usually sealed in tins. The outside 

 container is lined with corrugated fiber board and bound with strips of tin. 



which market in local and neighboring cities, express service is 

 commonly used. 



Often express service may be used to advantage in reaching a 

 junction point on a railroad through which a regular scheduled re- 

 frigerator car operates and from which refrigerator service by 

 freight may be obtained to the market which the shipper desires to 

 reach. 



Arrangements prior to shipping should be made with the re- 

 frigerator car company to advance the local express charges, which 

 they will later collect with the freight charges at destination. 



