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CLEAN MILK 



secure cooling of the whole wagon, but with the doors continually 

 ©pen the result in hot weather is far from satisfactory.* 



Three sets of bottles are necessary in distributing milk, one 

 remaining at the customer's house, one on the way to and from 

 the farm, and the other at the farm. Two whole sets of bottle- 

 boxes are required, one at the farm and the other passing to 

 and fro each day. The delivery baskets (Fig. 50) are convenient, 

 in carrying bottles from the wagon to the customer's house. 



Fig. 49. 



Milk Wagon. 



The matter of bottles is an important one. The loss from the- 

 customers not returning empty bottles has wrecked many enter- 

 prises. The men on the delivery wagons should be required to 

 charge patrons for bottles each day and credit them with re- 

 turned bottles. Those bottles not returned at the end of the 



* These milk wagons are made by the Sycamore Wagon Works, Syca- 

 more, Illinois. 



