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between $375 and $400, while the estimates of the owners of the 2-ton 
trucks and of those over 2 tons averaged more than $600. There is 
no great difference in the percentages of the owners of the different 
sizes who consider that their trucks do not reduce the expense for 
hired help. 
DISPLACEMENT OF HORSES. 
The operators of 610 farms reported the number of head of work 
stock they owned before purchasing their trucks and the number 
they had disposed of since that time. Four of these 610 farms were 
small ones which had been operated without horses even before 
trucks were purchased. The number of head of work stock kept on 
the other 606 farms varied from 1 or 2 on the smaller farms to 20 
and more on a few of the larger ones. The total number of work 
stock kept on the 606 farms was 3,103. On 296 of them the number 
had been reduced since the trucks were purchased by a total of 586 
head, an average reduction of 19 per cent for the 606 farms and an 
average displacement of 1.0 head per truck. 
A man with only 1 or 2 horses will usually need to keep them for 
work on the farm even after buying a truck, and only about 1 man 
in 7 who owned 1 or 2 horses had sold any since buying his truck. 
Similarly, the purchase of a motor truck will not often enable a man 
who owns 3 or 4 horses, all of which he sometimes uses as a single 
unit, to reduce the number of his work stock. A little less than one- 
half of the men who had owned 3 or 4 horses before purchasing their 
trucks reported that they had disposed of any since that time, but 
nearly two-thirds of those who had owned 5 or more had disposed 
of at least 1 after purchasing the truck. The exact number of work 
stock formerly owned and the number disposed of by the different 
men is as follows : 
Of 90 men who owned 1 or 2 head before purchasing trucks — 
77 had disposed of none. 
10 had disposed of 1. 
3 had disposed of 2. 
Of 232 men who owned 3 or 4 head before purchasing trucks — 
130 had disposed of none. 
59 had disposed of 1. 
42 had disposed of 2. 
1 had disposed of 3. 
Of 156 men who owned 5 or 6 head before purchasing trucks — 
66 had disposed of none. 
35 had disposed of 1. 
43 had disposed of 2. 
8 had disposed of 3. 
4 had disposed of 4. 
