Show MILK BOTTLE WASTE IS ENORMOUS SUM Special Clearing Houses Have Been Established in Large Cities of the Country The average life ot a milk bottle is probably unknown to the average observer but statist cs of the Un ted States department of agr culture has f gnred out that a bottle nominally Iats twenty two and one half trips In those of the larger dealers in eastern c t es who deh er from 5000 to 10 000 bottles of m lk per day the loss runs nto thousands of dollars per year as the bottles cost about 3H cents each These bottles are not all lost or brok n many of thero are merely strayed Some of the bottles get into the hands of other dealers and some are dumped into the ash barrel by per sons ignorant of the r value One m 1 lion five hundred thousand bottles were rescued from the city dumps dur ng three years by a milk bottle clear ng ho ee in one city "M lk bottle clearing houses OEtab 1 shed in many c t es have done a good deal to reduce the losses in bottles The clear ng house helps the dealer to recover h s own bottles Ashmen and and others are pa d from a quarter to half a cent for each bottle returned The usual charge for bottles returned to the owner is fron 1 to l'a cents each Employees of the exchanges v s t the establishn ents of d ff erent dealers regularly and return bottles not belonging to the dealers to the ex change headquarters where they are washed sterilized and sorted |