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About 5-10 cents per gallon, depending on which type of milk it was like skim milk or 2% milk.
5 cents a gallon
31 cents per half gallon delivered (probably a wholesale price) http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/CT1970p1-06.pdf
This general tendency toward rising distribution costs and declining prices paid to farmers, is borne out by a report of costs in the milk business in Milwaukee .8 This revealed that beginning with 1923, when the farmer received 58.1 cents of the consumer's milk dollar, his share shrank consistently down to 1934, when he received 46.8 cents. During this same period the retail price of milk declined from 10.5 cents to 9.5 cents but the distributor's gross margin increased from 4.4 cents to 5 cents. http://www.oldandsold.com/articles11/distribution-5.shtml
5 cents...the nick name wz nickel candy bar.
When Mayfield, Jr., died in 1937, Thomas B. Mayfield III took over the company .... The cost of milk cost increased to between $2.50 and $3.00 per gallon. ...
In 1904, the price of a loaf of bread varied depending on the region and quality, but on average it was around 5 cents. A gallon of milk cost approximately 32 cents, and a gallon of gasoline was around 7 cents. These prices may have fluctuated slightly based on location and market conditions at the time.
In 1990, a quart of milk cost 85 cents. A loaf of bread was 1.37 dollars.
It is a fact that a quart of milk in 1929 was only 5 cents.
In the 1956 a gallon of milk cost 97 cents. A house cost about $22,000 and a new car could be purchased for about $1,800.
Wasn't the increase from 2 cents to 3 cents, not to 5 cents? Don't remember which year, but it was either 1944 or 1945.
5 cents