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BULLETIN 614, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



ering all records of the valley, the prorate credit was $2.25 per acre, 

 or $0.0052 per box. 



HAULING PACKED BOXES. 



Boxes usually are hauled to the local association or station as soon 

 as possible after the fruit is packed. The majority of growers use a 

 wao-on or truck with a crew of one man and two horses for hauling:. 

 Six growers used a crew of one man and one horse, one a crew of two 

 men and two horses, and one a crew of three men and two horses. 

 Nine orchardists in the North Yakima district hired their hauling 

 done at a cost of from $0,015 to $0,025 per box, varying with the dis- 

 tance from the station. Seventy-seven per cent of the men in the 

 North Yakima district and 96 per cent in the Zillah district used a crew 

 of one man and two horses for hauling packed boxes to the station. 

 Table XLI gives the comparative cost of hauling with a crew of one 

 man and two horses in each district. The load varies from 50 to 120 

 boxes. For the entire valley the average cost for hauling packed 

 boxes to the station with a crew of one man and two horses was $0.0150 

 per packed box, or $0.0085 per box per mile. 



Considering the 120 records taken in the valley, regardless of 

 whether the apples were hauled by the owners or by contract to a 

 station or an association, the cost was $0.0165 per box, or $0.0089 per 

 box per mile. The average distance hauled was 1.85 miles and the 

 average load 81 boxes. (See Table XLII.) 



Table XLI. — Time and cost for hauling packed boxes to the station where a crew of one 



man and two horses is used. 





Num- 

 ber of 

 rec- 

 ords. 



Per acre. 



Cost 

 per 

 box. 



Aver- 

 age 

 dis- 

 tance 

 hauled. 



Cost 

 per 

 box 

 per 

 mile. 



Aver- 

 age 

 load. 



Yield 



District. 



Man- 

 hours. 



Horse- 

 hours. 



Cost. 



per 

 acre. 





42 

 54 

 96 



15. 41 

 9.49 

 12.08 



30.82 



18.98 

 24.16 



18.47 

 5.22 

 6.64 



$0.0169 

 .0131 

 .0150 



2.49 

 1.18 

 1.75 



$0. 0068 

 .0111 

 .0085 



96 

 86 

 90 



501 



Zillah 



398 



North Yakima and Zillah 



443 



The cost of all hauling, including the hauling of the shooks to the 

 ranch, the orchard hauling, hauling full boxes to a central packing 

 house, and hauling the packed box to the station, was 4.91 per cent 

 of the total net cost of production on the ranches studied in the 

 North Yakima district, and 5.37 per cent on those studied in the 

 Zillah district. The total cost of all hauling for the records consid- 

 ered in the valley was 5.10 per cent of the total net cost of production, 

 or $0.0408 per packed box. 



