. Market dairying and milk products. e placed immediately after cooling and in whichthey may be kept until ready for shipment. Shipping in Cans. Various insulated cans are nowupon the market and a number of these have been testedby the author. The tests showed that these cans possessabout the same insulating effect as the felt jackets thatare commonlywrapped around ordi-nary milk cans. Sincethe latter, as a rule,are more durable andmore easily handled,they will be foundmore satisfactorywhen wrapped with afelt jacket than the so-called insulated ship-ping cans. When milk andcream are cooled clo
. Market dairying and milk products. e placed immediately after cooling and in whichthey may be kept until ready for shipment. Shipping in Cans. Various insulated cans are nowupon the market and a number of these have been testedby the author. The tests showed that these cans possessabout the same insulating effect as the felt jackets thatare commonlywrapped around ordi-nary milk cans. Sincethe latter, as a rule,are more durable andmore easily handled,they will be foundmore satisfactorywhen wrapped with afelt jacket than the so-called insulated ship-ping cans. When milk andcream are cooled closeto freezing and placedin ordinary milk canswrapped in felt jack-ets, they may be safe-ly shipped to anypoint that may bereached within24 hours eveni n warm the temperature of the milk and cream at the time ofshipment is 500 F. or higher, then long distance ship-ment is best accomplished by the use of an ordinary canplaced inside of a covered ice cream shipping tub con-taining ice. Such a tub has practically the same in-. Fig. 46.—Screw Top Can. 130 MARKET DAIRYING sulating effect as a felt jacket, but is rather heavy andcumbersome and should not be used except in cases whereit is necessary to pack ice around the cream or milk. Thebest results from the ice are secured by packing it inlarge lumps around the neck of the can. Shipping in Bottles. Where milk and cream areshipped in bottles, the latter should be placed in insulateddelivery cases (Fig. 43) and surrounded with crushedice. The cases should have the owners address on themand must be kept locked while in transit. Mode of Shipping. The usual way of shipping milkand cream is by express. In the main dairy sections bag-gage rates are available. These rates are lower than ex-press rates and can be obtained nearly everywhere byspecial arrangement with the railroad companies. Shipping rates should always be obtained in advanceof shipment and the charges should be prepaid. A con-siderable saving is certain to be ef
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