. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 8 New Hampshire Experiment Station [Bulletin 332 large, they are by no means as striking as the changes which have taken place in the asseml)lin<^- and marketing" of milk in New Hampshire within the past 50 years. Shipments of fluid milk to Boston out of New Hampshire were recorded in the 1850's and perhaps began even earlier. "These early shipments were made by peddlers who brought into the city the milk which they n.'^eded for their retail trade. But as the busi- ness increased, there happened what has taken place in every other indus- t
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. 8 New Hampshire Experiment Station [Bulletin 332 large, they are by no means as striking as the changes which have taken place in the asseml)lin<^- and marketing" of milk in New Hampshire within the past 50 years. Shipments of fluid milk to Boston out of New Hampshire were recorded in the 1850's and perhaps began even earlier. "These early shipments were made by peddlers who brought into the city the milk which they n.'^eded for their retail trade. But as the busi- ness increased, there happened what has taken place in every other indus- try — specialization. Handling milk at wholesale became a business distinct from retailing, and the men who brought in railroad milk came in time to devote the whole of their energy and capital to buying milk of the farmers, transporting it, and selling it to ; ' Shipment out of New Hampshire to Boston in 1897 was entirely by rail. Producers sold milk delivered to the car at the railroad station. This milk was handled almost entirely in wooden stoppered, HjA quart cans. In 1898, Whitaker indicated the area of New Hampshire out of which shipments of fluid milk were being made to Boston, as extending as far north and west as East Lebanon, N. H., Newport, N. H., and Bel- lows Falls, Vt. Writing in 1905, seven years later, he" mentioned producers as far north as Lancaster, shipping milk to Boston. Presumably the Boston milk- THOUSANDS OF COWS IBS 100 — 75 50 — 25. ± \860 t870 1680 1890 1900 IVO l<?20 I'^50 mo Fig. 1. Number of milk cows on New Hampshire farms, january 1, 1867-1940^ 1 For data on which this figure is based, see Appendix Table I. iWhitaker, George M., "The Milk Supply of Boston and other New England Cities," U. S. D. A. Bur. of Dairy Industry Bui. 20. 1898. ^Whitaker, George "The Milk Supply of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia," U. S. D. A. Bur. of Animal Industry Bui. 81. Please note that these images are
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