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Show Motortrucks Bring Bulk of Cities' Milk Supply The motortruck is now the most Important Im-portant agency for transporting milk from producer to city distributor, according ac-cording to the bureau of public roads of the United States Department of Agriculture. The bureau has recently recent-ly completed a survey of milk transportation trans-portation for eight large cities and has found that the motortruck, which first entered the field in 1913, when most of the milk was transported by rail and the remaining portion by wagon, Is now the major factor In the field. Of the total amount of milk delivered deliv-ered to the cities investigated the amounts delivered by motortruck were as follows : Baltimore, 45 per cent ; Philadelphia, 20 per cent; Cincinnati, 97 per cent ; Detroit, SS per cent ; Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, 87 per cent ; St. Paul and Minneapolis, 94 per cent. This form of transportation has been of great benefit in developing new milk-producing territory for growing grow-ing cities and has given the farmers a more satisfactory means of delivering deliver-ing their product. The milk moves directly from the farmer's gate to the city's bottling plant instead of being delivered to the steam or electric railroad station, hauled by rail, and then delivered from the city terminal. In the Baltimore area a farmers' co-operative trucking association has been organized with a city warehouse, where the milk trucks call for a return re-turn load of farmers' supplies. |