60 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 
wagon 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 he 120 records taken in the valley, regardless of 
whether the oes 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 XLIL.) 
TABLE XLI.—Time and cost for hauling packed boxes to the station where a crew of one 
man and two horses is used. 
re Per acre. Aver- |” Cost 
Riage Reaor Cost age per | Aver- | Yield 
District. a | per dis- box age per 
ares Man- | Horse- Cost box. | tance per load. | acre. 
hours. | hours. 5 hauled.| mile. 
NortheViakima- sos. 23oe se =o 42 | 15.41] 30.82] $8.47 |$0.0169 2.49 $0. 0068 96 501 
TAME Ss SSL es Doreen An ae aoe 54 9.49 | 18.98 5.22} .0131 ASS yen! 86 398 
North Yakima and Zillah...) 96} 12.08} 24.16 6.64 | .0150 1.75 | .0085 90 443 
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 ine total net cost of production, 
‘or $0.0408 me packed box. 
