Excerpt from Tank-Truck Assembly of Milk for New Hampshire<br><br>Any techniques which reduce costs or increase efficiency in the pro duction and processing of milk are welcome to an industry which is facing growing competition for its products. Tank-truck assembly can therefore best be evaluated where it permits cost reductions to the industry as a whole and where it improves the competitive position of this industry in a particular area.<br><br>There are four distinct functional operations in the sale of milk. They are: production, assembly, processing, and distribution. As so defined, pro duction is limited to the farm operations of milking and animal husbandry. Assembly is the collection from farms and delivery to the processor or dealer. Processing refers to those plant operations necessary for the bottling of who-le milk and the preparation of milk products. Distribution is the final step of getting milk and milk products into the hands of the consumers.<br><br>A reduction in costs in any one of these operations may be. Retained by that sector to improve its cost position, or it may be passed forward to con sumers either as lower prices or as improved quality, or passed backward to producers as higher prices. It is necessary therefore to decide. What economies, if any, are possible from the adoption of tank handling, and to estimate how the distribution of benefits and costs between producers and dealers would influence the dairy industry in New Hampshire.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.