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BULLETIN 456, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
operated by the railroads or fast freight refrigerator companies, to 
move the shipments of butter from the creameries to eastern markets. 
The butter is collected from the creameries along the line in iced cars 
by " pick-up " service, and at junction or division points entire car- 
loads are made up. The larger creameries which produce a carload 
or more of butter a week usually ship in carload lots directly from 
their plants. In distributing butter out of terminal markets such as 
Chicago, the various railroads extending into the South and East 
operate regular scheduled refrigerated package cars to certain cities 
where bulk cars are broken for distribution. In the more sparsely 
developed dairy sections and particularly with the smaller creameries. 
Fig. 12. — The butter exported to tropical countries is usually sealed in tins. The outside 
container is lined with corrugated fiber board and bound with strips of tin. 
which market in local and neighboring cities, express service is 
commonly used. 
Often express service may be used to advantage in reaching a 
junction point on a railroad through which a regular scheduled re- 
frigerator car operates and from which refrigerator service by 
freight ma} 7 be obtained to the market which the shipper desires to 
reach. 
Arrangements prior to shipping should be made with the re- 
frigerator car company to advance the local express charges, which 
they will later collect with the freight charges at destination. 
