MARKET MILK BUSINESS OF DETROIT, MICH., IN 1915. 25 
from 2,001 to 3,000 gallons do not conform strictly to the general 
tendency, because the plants in these groups had large investments 
in buildings and equipment, and were not operated at full capacity 
in all cases. The delivery costs per gallon do not vary in accord- 
ance with the size of the business; the reasons are indicated in 
Table XVI and figure 9. 
Figure 11 shows graphically the differences in per gallon in- 
vestments by dealers, 
grouped according to 
number of gallons 
handled daily. The ex- 
tremely disproportion- 
ate investments for 
both handling and de- 
livering are explained 65 
in the discussion fol- 
lowing Tables XIII 
‘and XVI. Thegeneral ~> 
tendency, however, was 
for the handling in- 
vestment to increase 
with the size of the 
plant to the point of a 
plant handling as high 
as 2,001 to 3,000 gal- 
lons. The group han- 
dling 1,501 to 2,000 gal- 
lons has a dispropor- 
tionately low imnvest- 
ment because in that «5 
group the dealers had | 
equipped some old “ 
wooden buildings for 5-3 
temporary use until : 
DALE RS CROLPLD ACCORDING FO 
NOITBER OF GALLONS HAMOLED QLY 
LESS THAN 150 GALS. 
150-500 
5O/-/000 
400/-17500 
/50/-2000 
200/-3 000 
JIORE THAN 
3000 
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plants could be con- Co) QELWERY INVESTIIENT 
structed and satisfac- F!¢: 11.—Average investments per gallon for handling 
and distributing milk. 
torily equipped. Plants 
handling less than 150 gallons present another exception to the gen- 
eral tendency which in part can be explained by the fact that they 
were not operated at full capacity. The figures would also indicate 
that unless a dealer can handle at least 150 gallons his plant invest- 
ment charge will be high. It will be noted that in general the larger 
dealers had greater investments in delivery equipment than the 
smaller ones. That is in part explained by the fact that many of 
