4 BULLETIN 910, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
These farms are of all sizes and types, varying from truck farms of 
only a few acres to large crop farms containing several hundred acres. 
The types of farming practiced have been classified into five groups, 
as follows : 
(1) Truck farms, on which the raising of vegetables and similar 
produce predominates. 
(2) Dairy farms, on which dairying is the principal enterprise. 
(3) Fruit farms. 
(4) Crop farms, on which general field crops are raised, but few or 
no dairy cows are kept, and no live stock is raised for sale. 
(5) General farms, where no one special enterprise predominates. 
In the region studied there are many more general farms than any 
other type. Although more reports were received from men who 
operate general farms than from any other class, this does not neces- 
sarily mean that the percentage of such farmers who own motor 
trucks is larger than that of men who follow special types of farming. 
The number of farms of the different types and their average size 
are shown in Table I. 
Table I. — Number of farms of different types, and their acreages. 
Type of farm. 
Truck 
Dairv 
Fruit 
Crop 
General . . . 
All. 
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Average 
size. 
Acres. 
149 
64 
129 
234 
113 
111 
4S 
237 
314 
210 
,33 
173 
DISTANCE TO MARKET. 
Probably the most striking point concerning these farms is their 
great distance from market as compared with other farms in the same 
section. Only 18 per cent of these farms are less than 5 miles from 
market, while nearly one-fourth of them are 20 miles or more. As will 
appear later, some of the men who have very long hauls have changed 
then markets since purchasing their trucks, but the average distance 
from market, even before the purchase of the trucks, was a little over 
10 miles. (See fig. 1.) 
Seven hundred and four men reported the distance to the towns 
where the materials hauled by trucks are usually marketed. The 
exact number of farms of different types at different distances from 
market is as follows: 
Of 143 truck farms — 
11 are less than 5 miles from market. 
32 are from 5 to 9 miles from market. 
34 are from 10 to 14 miles from market. 
