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is very little retailing 1 of milk in bottles but this old custom of 

 delivering on the street is still practised. 



Milk is brought to substations in the city belonging to this 

 firm twice a day from about sixty farms. The price paid the 

 farmer is about 2 cents per quart in the summer and 3 cents in 

 the winter. 



Men driving delivery wagons are paid from four to six dol- 

 lars per week. Each one is checked out as he leaves the central 

 station and the blank filled out for each trip shows the amount 

 of business he has done. The time of leaving and the return of 

 each wagon is also recorded and twenty dollars in wages is 

 always kept back to insure the return of the wagons in good con- 

 dition. 



In addition to his regular wages the man is paid one-fourth 

 cent per quart for milk sold to new customers ; less than one pint 

 of milk is not sold, eggs, butter and cheese are carried as well 

 as milk, by each delivery wagon. Eggs are sold at so much per 

 egg instead of by the dozen. The price ranges from 1.2 to 3.6 

 cents per egg during different seasons of the year. 



The Milk Supply of Dresden. 



The city of Dresden, Germany, claims to have one of the larg- 

 est and best milk distributing establishments of the German Em- 

 pire. After staying in the city about three days I was able to 

 gain admission to the premises of this large concern. 



The firm now operating the business has carried it on for 

 twenty-seven years and the various buildings together with the 

 500 employees make a small town of itself. Nearly everything 

 connected with the milk business, except the milk, is made in this 

 establishment. The milk wagons are built in one department of 

 the business. Several repair shops with complete outfits for re- 

 tinning cans and making some parts of the machinery used are 

 fully equipped. A print shop for printing circulars and adver- 

 tising matter is maintained, and while the principal part of the 



