28 BULLETIN 735, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The fact that hauling is done for less per ton with two horses than 
with other sorts of teams is perhaps not entirely due to the efficiency 
of this method of hauling, but is more likely to be due to the fact that 
the men with the uphill haul or harder haul used more horses to a 
wagon than the men with easier hauls. The cost of hauling varies 
with the season and the condition of the fields and roads. For 1915 
the load hauled averaged 3.18 tons. ‘Two horses hauled on an average 
2.82 tons, three horses 2.92 tons, and four horses 3.37 tons, the aver- 
age cost of hauling being 26 cents per ton per mile hauled, when man 
labor is figured at 20 cents per hour and horse labor at 10 cents per 
hour. If better methods of loading and unloading were devised, 
and especially if improvement could be made in loading beets on the 
_ wagons, this cost could be greatly lessened. 
The hired hauling on an average cost’ 28.3 cents more per ton 
than hauling done by the farmer, where his labor was figured at $2 
per day per man and $1 per horse for a 10-hour day, and the average 
distance for the hired hauling was 1.3 miles less.. This gives some 
indication of the scarcity of labor which usually prevails during 
the harvest season. The man who has not the horses for hauling 
beets must hire the necessary men with teams and must have the ~ 
labor done during a short period of time, so he has to pay for this 
work at a rate that is higher than is common for other seasons of 
the year. Usually he does not furnish wagons or any harness, which 
would mean some expense for wear and breakage. The average 
cost was $4.81 per acre for hauling the beets where the farmer did 
the work, counting labor only, and $7.85 for hired hauling, a differ- 
ence of $3.04. In computing the cost of hauling 1 ton of beets 1 _ 
mile it was found that for farmers doing their own work in the 
first group, those averaging 0.76 of a mile, the average cost was 49 
cents per ton-mile. For the second group, those averaging a 1.67-mile 
haul, the cost was 28 cents per ton-mile; in the third group, those 
averaging a 2.91-mile haul, the cost was 19 cents per ton-mile; in the 
fourth group, those averaging a 3.96-mile haul, the cost was 17 
cents per ton-mile. The hired hauling cost 69 cents per ton-mile 
on an average haul of 0.88 mile, 51 cents per ton-mile for 
an average haul of 1.46 miles, and 36 cents per ton-mile for an 
average haul of 2.88 miles. The difference of 21 cents between 
groups 1 and 2 and 9 cents between groups 2 and 3 for farmers 
doing their own hauling might be taken as an indication that the 
average cost of loading beets was about 12 cents per ton; but this 
is not an accurate method of figuring, as the actual time taken to 
load the beets was not recorded. Table VIII, showing the cost of 
hauling according to distance, indicates that it costs the farmers 
in the group farthest from the dump an average of $3.11 more per 
acre to deliver their beets than those in the group closest to the dump. 
