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DEPARTMENT BULLETIN 1254, U. S. DEFT. OF AGRICULTURE. 
In order to obtain information on this point based on actual ex- 
perience each truck owner was asked to state what he believed to be 
the best size of machine for his conditions, regardless of the size he 
owned. 
The replies of the 30G men who answered the question in 1 ( .»22. 
and of the 304 who replied to it in 1920. are as follows: 
I Per cent. 
Farmers who recommended the ],-ton size 10 
Farmers who recommended the f -ton size 4 
Farmers who recommended the 1-ton size i 51 
Farmers who recommended the 1\ and 1 '.-ton sizes 16 
Farmers who recommended the 2-ton size 16 
Farmers who recommended trucks over 2-tons in size 3 
Inasmuch as 231, or 71 per cent, of the 325 men reporting (See 
Table 3) own trucks ranging from 1 to 2 tons capacity, and these 
sizes are recommended by 83 per cent of the men replying to the 
question in 1922 and by 82 per cent of those who answered it in 
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Fig. 5. — Sizes of motor trucks owned and sizes recommended. 
1920, it would seem that ordinarily the choice of a truck purchased 
primarily for farm use in the section covered by these reports, or in 
other areas where conditions are similar, might well be one of the 
four sizes included in the 1-ton to 2-ton group. 
The proportion of those reporting who own the different sizes and 
the proportion who preferred trucks of certain sizes are shown in 
Figure 5. 
CHANGE OF MARKETS. 
Good markets are used by many farmers who do not own motor 
trucks. There are other farmers who would rind it difficult to reach 
better markets than they are now using even if a truck was added 
to their farm equipment. Slightly aver one-fourth of the men 
reporting concerning the markets used by them stated that after they 
purchased their trucks they made a change in the markets generally 
used. However, even though the trucks put new and better mar- 
kets within reach, some of their owners stated they still used the old 
market to some extent. The distance to the new markets was in 
nearly every case considerably greater than to those formerly used. 
The men who changed markets were on the average 8.9 miles from 
