9 
MARKET MILK BUSINESS OF DETROIT, MICH., IN 1915. 
The total number of gallons handled by different groups of dealers, 
as shown in Tables I and ITI, does not correspond to the total shown 
in Table IV, because large quantities of milk were bought from 
farmers by those dealers and not used for market milk purposes but 
manufactured into butter, cheese, condensed milk, powdered milk, 
and casein. 
The larger companies obtained the greater part of their supply 
through the country milk stations or “collecting depots,” which 
they usually owned. A few of the country stations were owned 
either by farmers’ cooperative associations or by indiviaual farmers 
whose dairy houses were equipped to handle truck loads of milk pro- 
duced on neighboring farms. (See Pl. I, fig. 1.) 
The typical milk-receiving station consisted of a wooden-framed 
building equipped with a small boiler, apparatus for washing and 
sterilizing milk utensils, scales for weighing milk, and a tank for 
holding the cans of milk in ice water until time to ship to the city. 
During the winter natural ice was usually stored in an adjoining 
building for use in the summer. Stations which skimmed or utilized 
surplus milk at certain seasons had additional and more expensive 
equipment, such as receiving tanks, mixing vats, cheese vats, sepa- 
rators, churns, pasteurizers, coolers, and equipment for condensing 
milk. (See Pl. I, fig. 2.) : 
Table V shows the relation of the amounts invested in 16 country 
milk stations to the number of gallons handled daily. 
TABLE V.—Relation of investment in country stations to gallons of milk handled 
daily during June, 1915. 
Gallons of milk han- 2 
¢ neg aati. : Investment |_/nvest 
in buildings | ™eut per 
Station number. aid aa 
: : andle 
Cooled.” | Skimmed.| C4Pment. | “qaity. 
eee aes emer Se oe kk Sa tS So Se CTR aie coy et an $380. 00 $4.94 
Phe xe e5s BS ES 34 GEO AAOOE 20 COO ae oer I 24 ye epithe eee 818.00 6. 60 
Gian deaberenedosoes sn Sus HBS SH ce Ae ame ase ees nar eae OF: acme eraser 440.00 2.59 
Oh Ga BOSSE SESS BOO G OC ea TS eae en ee a 226312 ose nae eae 876. 00 3.88 
ee ee he ne ae Meeisinee eeesesees OL (e) | Rue ee seer 1, 325. 00 4.18 
Oo apeebeod ocig ds SIS GUA EO SECS oo eee eee ee ee Sey ee ae Se oraoe 1,675. 00 4.39 
acids Saou GueDebab See 1 Obras Bee SOE oes eee ee Ma ee eae or 609. 00 1.36 
odie 5 SBE SS SOB ORO SOP CRE ESE aera eS aa ek are ABD | Mcp ee eek 1,325.00 2.85 
ee ee nee ee a REA TG ee 3, 450. 00 4.43 
1) Se GaSe BSE Cas aie AOE SE Se See ms ERE ete ene tan rena Ro Ap oe ees asi a 4, 553. 00 5.41 
on so eace o uleee od Shela Mei abi aaa gis SoU nea LA APOUO| cera eee 2, 253. 00 2.23 
Wes oben SOSCGE OS FON ae OSes eee See A ee Se eee 760 720 1, 800: 00 1.22 
Bos sh aS Sng eSSe CUES Oars OSE eee er ae Ae marae ee 738 830 1,952.00 1.24 
tats Se tee nes hee Foe nC ea a me oe ea TOO 7. eee 4,752. 00 2.49 
15s ac ay ese Ce eho tges ee areas iene 1, 404 1, 155 2, 053. 00 .80 
IQ Coda GaSe CC SSO SE OHO Oc ee Renae er IS eee ZAOODR ee ces ee y 5, 745. 00 2.16 
LSE Dee 26 SoS SaaS Sel Oe Rn Ac a TGOE | Pye Ske 2, 125.00 3217, 
The investment in the stations does not bear a direct relation to 
the quantity of milk shipped. Some of the stations were creameries 
or cheese factories which had been converted into receiving stations, 
