. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 210 Missouri Agricultural Report. is four cents a quart for whole milk, two cents for skim milk and twenty- five cents for 25 per cent, cream. All milk in Amsterdam is delivered by hand, either in a cart pushed by a man, or carried in pails with a yoke. The supply house which we visited, runs fifty delivery carts—a man and a boy going with each cart. The bottled milk is carried in a box in the middle of the cart, and usually on each end is a brass cask having copper hoops
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 210 Missouri Agricultural Report. is four cents a quart for whole milk, two cents for skim milk and twenty- five cents for 25 per cent, cream. All milk in Amsterdam is delivered by hand, either in a cart pushed by a man, or carried in pails with a yoke. The supply house which we visited, runs fifty delivery carts—a man and a boy going with each cart. The bottled milk is carried in a box in the middle of the cart, and usually on each end is a brass cask having copper hoops and handles. As the Hol- landers pay much attention to ap- pearance, these are kept highly polished. There are one hundred men and a large number of boys Farmer's wagon delivering milk at dis- employed—the men receiving from tributing plant Amsterdam, Holland. fifty to ninety cents a day and the boys ten cents. The cheapness of labor accounts for the popularity of hand delivery. CHEESE AND BUTTER. At Rotterdam we made a more familiar acquaintance with the chief product for Avhich Holland is noted, namely, cheese. We paid a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Missouri. State Board of Agriculture. Jefferson City, Mo. : Missouri State Board of Agriculture
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