Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-03-23
MILK SUPPLY OF THREE CITIES
Magnitude of the Business in Boston,
New York and Philadelphia.

Wa9nltuue OF the BUSINESS III 6oStonl
New York and Philadelphia.
An interesting report on the milk
supply of Boston, New York and Phil
adelphia has been published by the DEF
partment of agriculture, Washington.
1t gives statistics showing the magni4
tude of the business, methods of ship
ment, consumption, and maps show
ing the source of the product.
The milk supply of Boston. the re-
port says, really means the supply Of
what is known locally as Greater
Boston" including at least, nine municl
qualities, with population of $4,000,
From 80 to So percent is transported
by railroad, and the remainder in
wagons. 1t is estimated that the sup
ply reaches 1,250,000 cans containing
IL quarts each monthly, with a
consumption per capita per day Of
from .76 to SO pint, according to es.
Inmates of population.
The Greater New York" milk sup
ply is handled to large extent in
forty-quart cans. Considering the
question from theoretical stand
point, and averaging many estimates,
the report says the average consump-
ton of milk is found to exceed half
pint per capita a day This indi-
Gates the daily consumption of three
and one-half million people to be S75,-
600 quarts of milk, not including
cream. 1t is safe to infer. the report
says, that If the cream consumed
were estimated on the same basis as
the milk consumption, the industry
would be shown to amount to over.
100000 quarts daily, for which more
than 100000 COWS would be required
to produce the supply. The report
says that the commissioner of New
York estimates that ''S7 percent OF
the milk and cream consumed in
Greater New York" is produced in
the state, coming from distances va
rylng from 40 to 400 miles. Refer
ence is made to the problem of SANTA
ton, which is difficult, for, the report
says, it must deal with the thousands
OF producers, then with the conditions
at the shipping stations, with the
manner of transportation, and finally
the manner of retailing in the city.
Many of the smaller grocers have no
facilities for keeping milk cool in the
summer, and they give the city board
OF health much trouble In one sec
tion it is stated that "eut of a total of
245S stores visited, only 454 were
found where the milk was properly
cooled, and where there was no COM
munication with living rooms
Eighty-seven percent of Philadel-
phia's milk supply comes from COM
paratively nearby sources, chiefly in
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Della
ware. Five thousand COWS are re-
ported to be within the city limits.
Forty-quart cans are used for the
most part. The feature of the bust
ness is the Philadelphia Milk Ex-
change, an Incorporated organization
OF dealers, which handles a greater
part of the milk received and sold in
the city, and which once a month
meets to consider and decide upon the
price of milk for the coming month.
The supply for Philadelphia for 1903
was 111,242,000 quarts. The report
speaks Of the work of the milk COM
mission OF the Philadelphia Pediatric
society,"" whose object is the improv-
ing of the milk supply, particularly
for children, and details the good re-
suits obtained.-New York Post.