4 DEPARTMENT BULLETIN 1254. U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE. 
of income. Those classed as dairy farms are the ones where dairying 
is the main enterprise. On the truck farms the raising of vegetables 
and similar produce predominates. The crop farms embrace those on 
which general field crops are grown, but where few or no dairy 
cows are kept and no livestock is raised for sale, while the general 
farms are those on which no one special enterprise predominates. 
The total number in each group, and the average acreages for each 
group, together with the average distances to the markets ordinarily 
used before the purchase of the motor trucks and to those used in 
1922, for such of the truck owners as reported these facts are given in 
Table 2. 
Table 2. — X umber of farms of different types using motor trucks, their average 
size, and distance to market. 
Type of farm. 
Number 
report- 
ing. 
Average 
size of 
farm. 
Average 
number 
of crop- 
acres per 
farm. 
Average distance to 
markets usually 
used — 
Before 
purchase 
of track 
In 1922. 
140 
57 
56 
50 
22 
Acres. 
191 
127 
228 
76 
191 
Acres 
124 
94 
123 
54 
155 
Miles. 
11.6 
10.7 
6.2 
11.8 
5.8 
Miles. 
13.4 
Fruit 
12.6 
Dairy__ ... . .. - .. - ... 
7.6 
Truck ._. . .. - .. . - . 
13.5 
9.3 
325 
170 
111 
10. 1 1 12.0 
The fact that more of the reports are from men operating general 
farms than from any other group does not indicate that the per- 
centage of such farmers who own motor trucks is larger than that of 
men who follow special types of farming, but that in the region 
under discussion there are more general farms than farms of any 
other type. 
In general, there will be more work for a truck on a large farm 
than on a small one, and a prospective purchaser should remember 
that if his farm is small he will probably have less hauling for a 
motor truck than the average of that done by the men reporting. 
DISTANCE TO MARKET. 
A striking point concerning these farms is their distance from 
market as compared with other farms in the same section. As 
shown in Table 2, the average distance to the markets usually used 
before the purchase of trucks was approximately 10 miles. Of the 
fruit, general, and truck farmers 19, 18, and 16 per cent, respect ively, 
were 20 or more miles from the markets they generally used before, 
adding motor trucks to their farm equipment. 
Farm survey records in the States covered by these reports indi- 
cate that only a small percentage of all the farmers in this section 
are more than 10 miles from market. The average distance from 
market of 4.271 farms, as shown by records in the Bureau of Agri- 
cultural Economics is 4.1 miles, or less than half the average dis- 
