COST OF HAULING TO MARKET 



1335 



Cost of Hauling Products to Shipping Points 



liable 1— Average Cost of HauHng Products from Farms to SMpping Points— Totals 



for States Eepresented 





Number of 

 counties 

 reporting 



Average 



PRODUCT HAULED 



•Miles to 



shipping 



point 



Days for 



round 



trip 



Pounds 

 in one 

 load 



Cost 



per 



load 



Cost 

 per 100 

 pounds 



Cost 

 per ton 

 per mile 



Apples 



Barley 



Beans 



114 

 226 



22 



8 



981 



555 



110 



51 



99 



761 



7 



316 



14 

 798 



19 

 569 



18 



78 



5 



113 



152 



1,051 



41 



9.6 



8.8 



9.0 



8.2 



7.4 



11.8 



10.7 



10.4 



11.6 



8.3 



5,2 



7.9 



11.7 



7.3 



8.1 



8.2 



7.5 



8 4 



8.0 



9,8 



9.8 



9.4 



39.8 



0.9 



.7 

 .8 

 .8 

 .6 



1.0 

 .9 

 .7 



1.1 

 .7 

 ,7 

 .7 



1.0 

 .6 

 .6 

 .7 



:l 



.8 

 .8 

 .9 

 .8 

 5.6 



2,300 

 3,970 

 3,172 

 2,438 

 2,696 

 1,702 

 1,654 

 3,409 

 2,181 

 2,786 

 3,393 

 b 1,941 

 3,665 

 2,772 

 1,363 

 2,679 

 2,407 

 2,625 

 2,410 

 2,248 

 1,852 

 3,323 

 4,869 



S2.79 

 2.67 

 2.75 

 2.90 

 1.78 

 2.76 

 2.42 

 2.70 

 3.63 

 2.32 

 2.10 

 2.00 

 3.89 

 1.82 

 1.67 

 2.34 

 2.70 

 2 23 

 1.92 

 2.28 

 2.84 

 2.86 



21.39 



$0.12 

 .07 

 ,09 

 .11 

 .07 

 .16 

 .15 

 .08 



.m 



.08 

 .06 

 b .10 

 .11 

 .07 

 .12 

 .09 

 .11 

 ,08 

 .08 

 .10 

 .15 

 .09 

 .44 



$0.25 

 .16 

 .20 



Buckwheat 



Corn 



.27 

 .19 



Cotton 



Cottonseed 



.27 

 .28 



Flaxseed 



.15 



Fruit (other than apples) 



"h^y 



.28 

 .19 



Hemp a 



.23 



Hogs (live) 



b .25 



Hops 



.19 



Oats 



Peanuts 



.19 

 .30 



Potatoes 



,22 



Rice 



Rye 



,29 

 .19 



Timothy seed c 



.20 



Tobacco 



Vegetables (other than potatoes) 

 Wheat 



.20 

 .31 

 .19 



Wool 



.22 







a Kentucky only. b Average for six states only. c Iowa only. 



Apples 



Apples were reported as a surplus crop 

 so generally by the correspondents in 

 this investigation that a fairly good basis 

 is afforded for finding average conditions 

 of hauling this fruit from farms in the 

 United States. Owing to the small num- 

 ber of returns from some states, the aver- 

 ages for the geographic divisions and for 

 the United States in Table 2 should be 

 used in comparison when the figures for 

 a single state are considered. 



The high cost per 100 pounds for haul- 



ing apples from farms in the South-Cen- 

 tral division is due largely to the small 

 loads taken, and in the Western division 

 the long time for the average round trip 

 makes the cost per 100 pounds twice the 

 average for the North and South At- 

 lantic and North-Central divisions. 



It is to be noted in connection with 

 this product that it is the practice in 

 some sections for the farmers to sell 

 their apples on the trees, the buyer to 

 do all the picking and hauling. This, 

 however, does not invalidate the figures 

 as given in Table 2. 



