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Excerpt from Minutes of Evidence, Vol. 1: City Hall, Dublin, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th December, 1919; Milk-Production and Milk Products Fishery There is a further and I think a serious obstacle to obtaining supplies of milk for cities like Dublin, It is this: the cost of distribution in Dublin is excessive. It is conducted in an uneconomic way. Anybody who goes through the streets of Dublin in the morning can see for himself three or four milk-carts in a small street delivering milk at the one time, while one cart could deliver it. The public is paying for that, and the cost of distribution owing to that uneconomic system has gone up enormously. Of course it has been increased by war conditions. These are commonly the excuses for charging very high prices for milk. Further a system of milk supply prevails in Dublin where people who supply the bulk of the milk are not farmers at all, but take accommodation land at competition rents outside the city boundaries. These rents have been forced up recently owing to the competition from cattle dealers, butchers and others who also require this accommodation land. The rents have gone up to as much as GBP20 an acre for this land near Dublin. These men, in addition to having no'land of their own, are renting land on the eleven months system, and raise no crops at all. They buy their hay; they buy their roots and brewers' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

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