68 BULLETIN 393, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The Orrville truck cost $1,800 and the Marion Junction truck 
$2,500. Assuming that they are loaded each way, the former will — 
haul 1,600 ton-miles per month, at a cost of 9.9 cents per ton-mile, 
and the latter 1,764 ton-miles a month, at a cost of 11.9 cents per 
ton-mile. 
The cotton crop which is produced on 160,000 acres constitutes 
the bulk of hauling. Each bale represents 500 pounds of lint and 
1,000 pounds of seed. The average annual crop for the county does 
not amount to more than 37,500 tons, including seed. Practically 
all of this is hauled for some distance over the improved roads. 
General farm crops produced on about 40,000 acres amounted to 
about 30,000 tons in 1910, and this has materially increased since 
that time. Approximately 18,000 tons (or 900 pounds to the acre) 
are hauled over the roads. It is estimated that about 20,000 tons 
of fertilizer and about 10,000 tons of miscellaneous products and 
supplies are hauled over country roads from Selma and other dis- 
tributing pomts to plantations in Dallas and adjacent counties. 
This makes a grand total tonnage hauled over country roads, as shown 
in Table 24: | 
TABLE 24. 
Tons 
Coitonand Gotion seed 222. = 5.< 232 2e es eee 37, 500 
Generalifarm prodacis: 2. 2 45 2 3 eS ee eee 18, 000 
BOT AZET cor re oS en a eee er ee 20, 000 
Makceibanenus: 2) ot" 8 0 es re ee A ee eee -.. 10,000 
POtal és .252-)es5 bs 2 4c tee ee ee ee eee 85, 500 
The whole county constitutes the traffic area for the improved 
roads, but there are only 200,000 acres in crops. The total tonnage 
therefore represents about 0.11 ton per traffic acre or 0.43 ton for 
each acre in crops. The maximum haul for the county is about 28 
miles, and the average haul from 8 to 10 miles. The average haul 
on the bond-built roads is about 8.4 miles. The total hauling over 
the bond-built roads is probably about 610,000 ton-miles, or about 
84 per cent of the total. On the old roads the cost of hauling aver-- 
aged about 30 cents per ton-mile, and on the new roads about 15 
cents. The total annual saving, therefore, might be estimated at 
about $90,000. 
LAUDERDALE COUNTY. MISS. 
Road improvement was agitated in-Lauderdale County in 1910, 
and after a brief educational campaign, bonds were issued by the 
county board of supervisors upon petitions submitted by taxpayers. 
The first bonds were issued September 1, 1910, and at various times 
thereafter to March 1, 1915, until they aggregated $500,000. They 
were not issued as county liabilities. but were chargeable to the 
respective beats, which correspond to townships in other States. 
The work of construction was begun during the spring of 1911 and the 
