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get enough milk to make it profitable. In many cases it is 
necessary to pay an excessive price for hauling milk. 
When cream routes are established instead of milk routes, 
one hauler can usually cover as much territory as three could 
Fic. 80.—Simplex hand separator and the different parts of bowl. 
under the milk system. Two thousand pounds of milk, testing 
4% and containing 80 pounds of fat, would represent approx- 
imately a load of milk. At 12 cents per 100 pounds, this 
would mean a cost of $2.40 for getting that much milk 
