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DEPARTMENT BULLETIN 1254, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE. 
hauled. The 1920 reports showed that the owners of the smaller 
trucks usually hauled lighter loads with their machines than with 
horses, while the reverse was true for the larger trucks, and there- 
fore the time saved by the smaller machines was somewhat less than 
that indicated by the chart, and greater for the larger ones. 
The average weight of the load for the J-toii trucks, when crops 
were being hauled according to the reports of their owners, was a 
little less than a half ton. The average load hauled by the same 
men with horses was three-fourths of a ton. The average load of 
crops hauled with the f-ton trucks was slightly under a ton, or 15 
to 20 per cent less than was formerly hauled with horses. There is 
no great difference in the size of the loads hauled by the owners of 
the 1, 1J, to \\ ton trucks and by the same men with their horses. 
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distances with trucks and with, wagons. 
The 2-ton trucks hauled approximately 2-J tons of crops per load, 
or about 10 per cent more than was considered a load for the horses. 
With the exception of milk, the average loads of the other materials 
hauled by the various sizes of trucks, and by horses, were approxi- 
mately the same as the weights of crops hauled. Milk hauled from 
these farms by trucks was carried almost entirely on the \ to 1 ton 
machines, as less than 8 per cent of the trucks on the 120 dairy farms 
from which reports were received in 1920 had trucks larger than 1 
ton in size. The -J-ton trucks hauled on an average GOO pounds of 
milk per load, and the f and 1 ton trucks about 1,300 pounds, there 
being little difference in the weight of the loads carried by the last- 
mentioned two sizes of machines. These loads are nearly the same 
in weight as those formerly hauled by horses. 
The 1922 reports show that the dairy farmers are nearer to the 
markets used by them than are the truck owners on the other types 
of farms. (See p. 11.) 
