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between $375 and $400, while the estimates of the owners of the 2-ton 

 trucks and of those over 2 tons averaged more than $600. There is 

 no great difference in the percentages of the owners of the different 

 sizes who consider that their trucks do not reduce the expense for 

 hired help. 



DISPLACEMENT OF HORSES. 



The operators of 610 farms reported the number of head of work 

 stock they owned before purchasing their trucks and the number 

 they had disposed of since that time. Four of these 610 farms were 

 small ones which had been operated without horses even before 

 trucks were purchased. The number of head of work stock kept on 

 the other 606 farms varied from 1 or 2 on the smaller farms to 20 

 and more on a few of the larger ones. The total number of work 

 stock kept on the 606 farms was 3,103. On 296 of them the number 

 had been reduced since the trucks were purchased by a total of 586 

 head, an average reduction of 19 per cent for the 606 farms and an 

 average displacement of 1.0 head per truck. 



A man with only 1 or 2 horses will usually need to keep them for 

 work on the farm even after buying a truck, and only about 1 man 

 in 7 who owned 1 or 2 horses had sold any since buying his truck. 

 Similarly, the purchase of a motor truck will not often enable a man 

 who owns 3 or 4 horses, all of which he sometimes uses as a single 

 unit, to reduce the number of his work stock. A little less than one- 

 half of the men who had owned 3 or 4 horses before purchasing their 

 trucks reported that they had disposed of any since that time, but 

 nearly two-thirds of those who had owned 5 or more had disposed 

 of at least 1 after purchasing the truck. The exact number of work 

 stock formerly owned and the number disposed of by the different 

 men is as follows : 



Of 90 men who owned 1 or 2 head before purchasing trucks — 

 77 had disposed of none. 

 10 had disposed of 1. 



3 had disposed of 2. 



Of 232 men who owned 3 or 4 head before purchasing trucks — 

 130 had disposed of none. 

 59 had disposed of 1. 

 42 had disposed of 2. 

 1 had disposed of 3. 

 Of 156 men who owned 5 or 6 head before purchasing trucks — 

 66 had disposed of none. 

 35 had disposed of 1. 

 43 had disposed of 2. 

 8 had disposed of 3. 



4 had disposed of 4. 



