COST OF HAULING TO MARKET 
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Cost of Hauling. Products to Shipping Points 
Table 1—Average Cost of Hauling Products from Farms to Shipping Points—Totals 
for States Represented 
PRODUCT HAULED — | Number of 
reporting Miles to 
shipping 
point 
Apples... 0.0.0... scene eeeeee 114 9.6 
Barley..........0.0 6 cee ee 226 8.8 
Beans.... 0 cece eee 22 9.0 
Buckwheat. ........ 0.00000 0e 8 8.2 
0) 2 | 981 7.4 
Cotton... ccc ce cee cee 555 11.8 
Cottonseed. ..........0 cues 110 10.7 
Flaxseed. .......:.ee0eeeeeee 51 10.4 
Fruit (other than apples)...... 99 11.6 
Hay. ccc ccc ccc cece eens 761 8 3 
Hemp @..........00 ce cuaee 7 5.2 
Hoge. (live)... cc eee e eae 316 7.9 
Hops... cc ccc eect ene ee eee 14 11.7 
Oats... eee cece eens 798 7.3 
Peanuts........0cc cece aee 19 8.1 
Potatoes... .... cc cece ce eee 569 8.2 
ree voce e eet e tenn eee eeenee 18 7.5 
cece cece cence ee enenes 78 8.4 
Timoily seed O.......... 00. 5 8.0 
pease cet ereeseeeeeens 113 9.8 
Vegetables (other than potatoes) 152 9.8 
heat... .. cee ceeeceen eee ees ,051 9.4 
010) 4] 39.8 
Average 
Days for Pounds Cost Cost Cost 
round in one per per 100 per ton 
trip load load pounds per mile 
0.9 2,300 $2.79 $0.12 $0.25 
7 3,970 2.67 07 1 
8 3,172 2.75 .09 .20 
8 2,438 2.90 11 27 
6 2,696 1.78 07 19 
1.0 1,702 2.76 16 27 
9 1,654 2.42 15 28 
7 3,409 2.70 .08 15 
1.1 2,181 3.53 16 .28 
7 2,786 2.32 08 19 
7 3,393 2.10 06 .23 
7 b 1,941 2.00 b .10 b .25 
1.0 3,665 3.89 11 19 
6 2,772 1.82 07 19 
6 1,363 1.67 12 .30 
7 2,679 2.34 .09 .22 
8 2,407 2.70 ll .29 
7 2,625 2.23 08 .19 
8 2,410 1.92 .08 .20 
8 2, 248 2.28 10 .20 
9 1,852 2.84 15 ol 
8 3,323 2.86 .09 19 
5.6 4,869 21.39 44 22 
a Kentucky only. b Average for six states 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- 
¢ Iowa only. 
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. 
