. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Dairij Suggestions from Europe. 181 city of Manchester, where milk is sold by the glass or quart. He rents a double shop in the main part of the city for $4,000 a year, where he serves refreshments and employs twenty people. He pays the labor- ers that work inside his dairies, and also those who deliver milk, six dollars a week. He buys from 20,000 to 30,000 pounds of milk a day, selling it at 6 cents a quart in summer and 7 cents in winter. Most of the milk is delivered i
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. Dairij Suggestions from Europe. 181 city of Manchester, where milk is sold by the glass or quart. He rents a double shop in the main part of the city for $4,000 a year, where he serves refreshments and employs twenty people. He pays the labor- ers that work inside his dairies, and also those who deliver milk, six dollars a week. He buys from 20,000 to 30,000 pounds of milk a day, selling it at 6 cents a quart in summer and 7 cents in winter. Most of the milk is delivered in bulk and in pint and quart buckets, none of the milk being bottled, with tho ex- ception of a small amount which is pasteurized and sold in small- necked glass bottles. He sells 50 per cent, cream in ten-ounce jars at 12 cents. If the jar is returned, 1 cent is refunded. Another example of a dairy company supplying a city with milk is a concern doing a high class buiness in one of the smaller cities. It has as a depot an excellent two-story brick building with an attrac- tive shop i]i front where milk is sold by the glass, or in larger quantities. The floors are of cement and the walls of white glazed brick. One entire side of the building and a portion of the roof are of glass, giving ample light in the second story, where most of the milk is handled. A wash room for cleaning cans and dairy utensils is fitted up with every. City milk supply depot, showing milk chums and delivery 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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