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86. -« BULLETIN 393, U. S, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
total of 1,000,000 crates or 40,000 tons. These four crops—tomatoes, 
cabbage, celery, and citrus forteeie the season of 1913 comprised 
about 71,090 tons, to which miscellaneous vegetables and fruits 
added segnoesmne 10,000 tons, making 81,090 tons of outgomg _ 
farm products. The average load on the old ae roads was about 
750 pounds for a one-horse team and about 1,500 pounds for a two- 
horse team, and the rate of wages was about $4.50 to $5 for a two- 
horse team and driver for a 10-hour day. The average haul over the 
old roads was approximately 24 miles, with a maximum of five trips 
per day, or about 10 ton-miles per day for each two-horse team, 
which made the cost of hauling approximately 45 cents per ton-mile. 
It was found that 4,800 pounds could easily be drawn by a 2-horse 
team after the roads were improved. In order to be entirely con- 
servative, however, the average load on the improved roads is esti- 
mated at 3,500 pounds, the number of trips per day 5, the same as 
before the roads were improved, and the cost per day for team and 
driver $4.50, the same as on the unimproved roads; the average haul 
24 miles, the same as on the unimproved roads; and with these factors 
the average cost of hauling by a 2-horse team is about 20 cents per 
ton-mile, or a saving of -approximately 25 cents per ton-mile, as . 
nonce with the hauling cost on the old roads. 
Based upon information secured from railroad oie local 
business men, and fruit and vegetable growers, it is estimated that 
about 334 per cent of the outgoing rail shipments, 85 per cent of the 
outgoing shipments by water, and 20 per cent of the incoming ship- 
ments pass over the improved roads. On this basis the annual traffic 
on the improved roads for 1915 was estimated to be 52,117 tens, or 
130,292 ton-miles. If the saving of 25 cents per ton mile is applied 
to this amount it indicates an annual saving of $32,573. As the 
tonnage increases from year to year the benefit of the improved roads 
in the way of reducing hauling costs will be more and more apparent, 
and there can hardly be a doubt that the investment will prove a 
profitable one. 
