GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN CALIFORNIA. 838 
The average distance to the loading station was 1.33 miles. The 
shortest average distance hauled, 1.02 miles, was found in the Salinas 
district, and the longest, 1.76 miles, in the Oxnard area. (Table 
XX.) One hundred and forty-two men reported hauling with 
horsepower, and of this number 47 per cent hauled less than 1 mile 
and 13 per cent more than 2 miles. Forty per cent hauled an aver- 
age of 1.56 miles. Those who hauled an average distance of 0.67 
of a mile did so at an average cost of 14 cents per ton less than the 
men who hauled over 2 miles, or an average of 2.83 miles. (See figs. 
23 and 24.) 
Fic. 22.—Hauling sugar beets from field to factory with a tractor and a train of 
four wagons, 
TABLE XX.—Cost of hauling as influenced by the distance hauled. 
! Number | Percent | Labor 
Distance. av tBEe of of total | cost per 
‘| records. | records. ton. 
Miles 
METTAV I ATI TTI OL soins ict ene ee cic cieinis asince oats oe asieemesie | 0.67 66 47 $0. 26 
ME 2 AOS ATICIISI VO: 22-30 5422 i12 fae 2 oslo 22 ee =o ois se sla ee 1.56 57 40 32 
POMEL ORNL OS oe aie acne ee anise Seria SSS Aen EN oie Aisi eeeamiaine 2.83 19 13 .40 
VARIATIONS IN FIELD PRACTICE. 
While standard methods of handling a crop may be followed quite 
closely by many growers in a given district, certain variations are 
inevitable because of differences in soil, or in the previous treatment 
of the field, or in the time when the work of preparation is begun. 
