BUSINESS METHODS IN RETAILING MILK I99 



and washing the thousands of bottles which re- 

 quire so much labor and expensive equipment in 

 our milk plants at the present time. Several styles 

 have already been manufactured and appear to be 

 practical ; the only questions remaining to be solved 

 appear to be the cost of the bottle and the attitude 

 of the consumer to this innovation. 



Losses due to waste in handling. — It has been my 

 experience that the profits are affected in no small 

 degree by the attention given to the loss of milk 

 during the processes of cooling and bottling, and 

 particularly in delivery where the dippage method 

 is practised. Hence the importance of having a care- 

 ful man to do this work. The following tabulation 

 illustrates this. About 250 quarts were handled daily. 



Waste in Waste in Total 



Handling, Cooling Delivery or Waste, 



and Bottling. Dippage. Per 



Per Cent. Per Cent. Cent. 



1897 57 S-I 10.8 



1898 4-4 4-9 9-3 



1899 4.8 2.0 6.0 



1900 4.7 1.7 6.4 



1901 3-8 1.7 S-5 



1902 .8 1.2 2.0 



1903 — .16 .16 



During the years 1897 and 1898 about 50 per cent, 

 of the milk was bottled, so that the actual loss due 

 to dippage was practically 10 per cent, of the amount 

 handled in cans. For the last five years the pro- 

 portion of milk delivered in bottles was gradually 

 increased^in fact, from July i, 1902, practically all 

 of the milk was delivered in bottles. The waste 

 in delivery and dippage the last year amounted to 

 practically nothing more than an occasional broken 



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