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ESSENTIALS OF SUITABLE Locations 
advisable to erect a factory in too close proximity to large con- 
suming or railway centers, it is equally undesirable to choose 
a condensery site where transportation facilities are poor. 
Where access to one railroad only can be had, the factory 
is at the mercy of that road. Experience has shown that monop- 
oly of transportation usually means a low standard of efficiency 
of service and high freight rates.2. On the other hand, competi- 
tion involves a strugele for the survival of the fittest, and it 
offers the public all the inducements that business ingenuity and 
enterprise can produce. Where two or more transportation com- 
panies are after the business of the same manufacturing concern, 
they will generally leave nothing undone in the way of accom- 
modations and low rates to please the manufacturer. The result 
is that the manufacturer enjoys the ad vantages of Suen sery- 
ice, good accommodations and reasonable freight rates 
This is a factor which the condensery cannot afford to over- 
look, as the freight charges are a very conspicuous item in the 
expense account of the milk condensing business. A part of the 
fresh milk may have to be shipped to the factory by rail, all the 
finished product must leave the factory by rail and the condens- 
ery is dependent on the railway for its raw materials and sup- 
ples, such as sugar, tinplate, solder, box shooks, barrels, labels, 
oil, rosin, gasoline, coal, etc. Prompt and efficient transportation 
is essential. Undue delavs may cause the condensery serious 
inconvenience and loss, and may result in the cancelling of im- 
portant orders. 
Other Conditions.—The removal of the sewage of the fac- 
tory is important. It may be possible for the factory to connect 
with the town or city sewer, in which case the problem is easily 
solved. Where this is not possible, a site along a creek, river, 
pond or lake may offer effective means to take care of the con- 
densery sewage. Where no such natural depository is available, 
the elevation of the site should he sufficient to carry off the sew- 
age far enough from the factory to insure the plant against foul 
odors and unsanitary conditions. In the absence of all of these 
avenues for the disposal of the sewage, a properly laid-out sys- 
1The matter of freight rates is now largely regulated by the Federal De- 
partment of Transportation. 
