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Show Dairy Costs Kept High by Wasteful Practices Since costs remain high when prices fall and are adjusted slowly, the best hope for lower costs is to increase efficiency and to cut out wasteful practices prac-tices in distribution. TA'e may quote the items of expense that make up the milk dealer's margin, mar-gin, as prepared by Prof. Leland Spencer Spen-cer of the New York College cf Agriculture, Agri-culture, for 100 pounds of milk : Country Coun-try plant operation, 40 cents; freight, 53 cents ; trucking from terminal, 9 cents; pasteurizing plant operations, 74 cents ; delivery and collections, ";2.11; net profit, 14 cents; and total ' ' cost, $4.01. Figured on a per cent basis, these costs are : Ten per cent for country plant; thirteen per cent for freight ; two and two-tenths for trucking; eighteen and one-half for pasteurizing; fifty-two and six-tenths for delivery and collections, and three and one-half per cent for net profit. |