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condition, the condition of the market may be such that the goods 

 cannot be sold at a profit, and if the market happens to take a 

 demoralizing slump at the time the goods are ready to leave the 

 storage, the manufacturer may suffer heavy loss. This condi- 

 tion has occurred repeatedly within the last ten yars. 



TRANSPORTATION 



The plain condensed bulk milk and concentrated milk are 

 highly perishable products. If shipped considerable distances 

 they should be placed in refrigerator cars. 



The evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk in her- 

 rnetically sealed cans, and the latter also in barrels, can safely 

 be shipped in ordinary box cars. The cases weigh from fifty 

 to sixty-five pounds, and the barrels from three hundred to seven 

 hundred pounds. Care should be taken that the cars used for 

 this purpose are clean and did not preyiously carry goods with 

 strong and obnoxious odors, such as fertilizers, as these odors 

 are prone to follow the condensed milk to its destination. Strong 

 box cars, in good repair only, should be used. Even at best, 

 the cases and cans suffer more or less damage in transportation. 

 Cars with leaky roofs should be condemned, as transportation in 

 them may cause the package to suffer in appearance. If shipped 

 on steamboats, it should be specified to stow the cases away from 

 the boiler room, as prolonged exposure to high temperatures 

 causes the condensed milk to deteriorate. 



Chapter XVIII. 



MARKETS 



A large proportion of the canned condensed milk, both 

 sweetened and unsweetened, supplies localities, territories and 

 countries where the dairy industry is yet in its infancy, or 

 where geographic and climatic conditions bar the profitable 

 husbandry of the dairy cow. Thus, we find some of the best 

 condensed milk markets in the tropics, in the arctic regions, in 

 the army and navy, on ocean liners and in mining and lumber 

 camps. In these markets condensed milk has, in many cases, 

 become as great a necessity as fresh milk is to the inhabitants 

 within the temperature zone. The consumption of canned con- 



