EXPERIENCE WITH MOTOR TRUCKS. 5' 



5 miles from market and 20 per cent are 15 miles or more. A part 

 of these men who have long hauls have changed their markets since 

 buying trucks (see p. 19), but the average distance of all farms to 

 the markets used before the purchase of trucks is 8 miles. (See fig. 1.) 

 Eight hundred and fourteen men reported the distance from their 

 farms to the towns where the materials hauled by truck are usually 



Fig. 1. 



-The motor truck is most advantageous to the man who is far from market 

 or shipping point. 



marketed. The exact number of farms at different distances from 

 market is as follows: 



117, or 14 per cent, are less than 5 miles from market. 

 325, or 40 per cent, are from 5 to 9 miles from market. 

 213, or 26 per cent, are from 10 to 14 miles from market. 



75, or 9 per cent, are from 15 to 19 miles from market. 



84, or 11 per cent, are 20 miles and over from market. 



Farm survey records of other farms in different areas of the corn 

 belt indicate that a majority of all the farms in this section are less 

 than 5 miles from market. The average distance from market of 

 2,213 corn-belt farms, as shown by records in the office of Farm Man- 

 agement and Farm Economics, is 3.9 miles, and the number at differ- 

 ent distances is as follows : 



1,535, or 69.3 per cent, are less than 5 miles from market. 

 642, or 29.1 per cent, are from 5 to 9 miles from market. 

 36, or 1.6 per cent, are 10 miles and over from market. 



These 2,200 farms can not be considered as exactly representative 

 of all corn-belt farms, but a comparison of their distances from mar- 



