FARM MOTOR TRUCK OPERATION. 
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those they generally used before buying their machines, and 15.7 
miles from those they were using at the time of reporting. Sixty- 
eight per cent of these men were less than 10 miles from the markets 
they used when they did their road hauling with horses, while after 
the purchase of their trucks 62 per cent went to markets 10 miles or 
more from their farms, and one-third of the number went to market 
20 or more miles away. A few of the men who in 1920 reported 
having changed markets stated in 1922 they were taking their pro- 
duce to and hauling supplies from their old markets. Such men 
had apparently found that under the conditions existing at the time 
of their later reports the advantages of the new markets were in- 
sufficient to justify their continued use. The percentage of men on 
the different types of farms who reported using other markets than 
before buying their machines, with average distances to old and new 
markets, are shown in Table 4. 
Table 4. — Percentage of men on each type of farm icho reported changing mar- 
kets after buying their trucks, with average distance to both old and new 
markets. 
Truck 
owners 
who re- 
ported 
changing 
markets. 
Average distance to 
markets used— 
Type of farm. 
Before 
purchase 
of truck. 
At time 
of re- 
porting. 
Per cent. 
24 
25 
26 
33 
35 
Miles. 
5.3 
8.6 
10.8 
8.3 
7.0 
Miles. 
11.0 
Truck 
15.6 
17.8 
Fruit 
14.2 
17.0 
27 
8.9 
15.7 
The reports do not show to what extent the incomes of these men 
had been increased through the use of their trucks in going to better 
markets, but from the information voluntarily given on this point 
it would seem that in some instances at least the increase was suffi- 
cient to warrant the owners in believing their machines would prove 
to be profitable investments. 
ROAD HAULING WITH TRUCKS. 
A prospective purchaser will want to know how much time lie can 
reasonably expect to save if he does his hauling with a truck instead 
of with horses. As a large percentage of the men reporting in 1920 
furnished information on this point it was not called for in 1922. 
Figure 6, based on the information given in the earlier reports, 
makes possible a comparison of the time required for the round 
trip for distances ranging from 1 to 20 miles when hauling was done 
in the two ways. The time shown includes that spent in loading 
and unloading as well as on the road. On the average it requires 
about 35 to 40 per cent as much time to make a haul of a given 
length with a truck as it does with horses and wagons. 
The saving in time that can be effected by the use of motor trucks 
will depend, of course, to some extent upon the weight of the loads 
