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BULLETIN" 910, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table XIL — Change of market after 'purchase of motor trucks. 
Type of farming. 
Number 
report- 
ing. 
Number 
who 
changed 
market. 
Average 
distance 
to new 
market. 
Truck 
139 
119 
102 
44 
300 
31 
18 
23 
12 
88 
Miles. 
18 
16 
27 
22 
19 
Fruit.. 
All 
704 
172 
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A somewhat smaller percentage of dairy farmers than of any 
other type changed their markets. When milk is hauled to a con- 
densery or to a station for shipment it is not often that one market 
or station is enough better than another to warrant a change. 
A large percentage of these men who have changed their markets 
stated that they did so because the new market was better than the 
old one. A few, however, stated that they changed for other rea- 
sons, several saying that the better roads between their farms and 
the markets they are now using were responsible for the change. 
It should be remembered that a considerable number of the men 
who have not changed their markets were using first-class markets 
before purchasing their trucks. 
The fact that a man has changed his market does not necessarily 
mean that all his produce is hauled to the new market, or that he 
purchases all the material for his farm at the new market. In fact, 
a considerable number of these men who usually market their prod- 
uce at a different place than before purchasing their trucks .re- 
ported that they still haul some material either to or from the old 
markets. 
The distances from 156 of these farms to the markets which they 
used before buying their trucks, and the distances to the markets 
which they are now using are as follows: 
Of 64 men who formerly used markets 1 to 4 miles distant — 
2 now use markets 1 to 4 miles distant. 
17 now use markets 5 to 9 miles distant. 
14 now use markets 10 to 14 miles distant. 
15 now use markets 15 to 19 miles distant. 
10 now use markets 20 to 24 miles distant. 
3 now use markets 25 to 29 miles distant. 
3 now use markets 30 or more miles distant. 
Of 53 men who formerly used markets 5 to 9 miles distant — 
7 now use markets 5 to 9 miles distant. 
7 now use markets 10 to 14 miles distant. 
7 now use markets 15 to 19 miles distant. 
7 now use markets 20 to 24 miles distant 
9 now use markets 25 to 29 miles distant. 
16 now use markets 30 or more miles distant. 
