FARM MOTOR TRUCK OPERATION. 
tance reported by the truck owners. Twenty-seven per cent of the 
truck owners reporting distance to markets were less than 5 miles 
from the markets used by them before they purchased their trucks, 
while 69 per cent of the farms covered by the farm survey records 
were less than 5 miles from market. Forty-four per cent of the truck 
owners reported using markets 10 or more miles from their farms 
before buying their machines, while 7 per cent of the farms in the 
survey group were 10 or more miles from market. 
Over one-fourth of the truck owners reporting distance to mar- 
kets have changed their markets since purchasing their machines, 
and are now using markets still farther from their farms. (See 
p. 11.) 
Fig. 1. — Truck hauling requires less than half the time required with horses. 
The time required for hauling from and to the farm generally is 
greatest for those farmers farthest from market, and it is on such 
farms that most use will be found for motor trucks. (See figs. 
1 and 2.) A farmer who is but 2 or 3 miles from market must have 
an exceptionally large amount of hauling to do in order to make a 
truck a profitable investment. 
SIZE OF TRUCKS. 
The number of trucks of different sizes on the 325 farms where the 
original machines were still in use at the time of reporting in 1922, 
the average size of the farms on which they were owned, and the 
average distance to the markets ordinarily used by their owners be- 
fore the trucks were purchased are given in Table 3. 
