so THE MARKETING OF WHOLE MILK 



milk, began to leave the Ashtabula zone for Pittsburg, 

 thus creating a deficit in the supply of the former city. 



The largest milk market in this country is that of New 

 York City. In the fall of 1917 the New York City De- 

 partment of Health reported that milk was being received 

 from 30,934 dairy farms, was collected at 800 shipping 

 stations, and supplied the city during the month of No- 

 vember with a daily average of 1,627,127 quarts. Of this 

 New York State supplied 1,402,277 quarts and Pennsyl- 

 vania supplied 114,630 quarts. The balance came from 

 New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and 

 Canada.^ The city is now said to reach out over five hun- 

 dred miles in some instances.^ The bulk of its supply, 

 however, comes from about two hundred miles outside 

 the city. For several years preceding March, 1919, the 

 quotation on which New York milk was purchased was 

 that of the one hundred sixty mile zone. Iri that month 

 the producers succeeded in having the basic price quoted 

 on the two hundred to two hundred ten mile zone, claim- 

 ing that this zone represented more nearly the area from 

 which the bulk of the New York supply came. One may 

 get a still better idea as to the size of the New York milk 

 zone by noting the following figures showing distribution 

 of the membership of the New York Dairymen's League 

 on March i, 1920.* 



There are several factors forcing the expansion of a 

 milk zone. Most important perhaps is the case of com- 

 panies engaged in the distribution of milk reaching out 

 for additional or for cheaper milk. Only recently a Colum- 

 bus concern, finding that it could not depend upon a suf- 



' Report of Mayor's Committee on Milk, New York, p. i6. 

 * Wilson, C. S., Ohio Farmer, Dec. 6, 1919, p. 698. 

 ' Dairymen's League News, March 10, 1920, p. 10. 



