EXPERIENCE WITH MOTOR TRUCKS. 
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which will be saved by the truck when used for such work is small as 
compared with the time it will save in road hauling. When there 
are horses on the farm which would otherwise be idle, it would 
naturally be more profitable to use the horses and let the truck stand 
idle if there is no advantage in time saved or convenience in using it. 
The reasons for using their trucks as given by 145 of the men who 
reported that they did some hauling on their farms with their trucks 
are summarized in Table XII. Most of this hauling was crops. (See 
fig. 3.) In all, 105 men reported that they hauled some crops in the 
fields with their trucks, and a much smaller number reported the 
Fig. 3. 
-Unloading grain from a truck. The motor truck can often be used advan- 
tageously for hauling grain from the separator to the granary. 
hauling of any other material in the fields and around the buildings. 
These men who used their trucks for hauling crops on the farm 
hauled only 48 tons per year on the average. For all farms an aver- 
age of 83 tons of crops are hauled to market per year. Thus even the 
men who do use their trucks for hauling on the farm do only a small 
portion of all the hauling in the fields and around the buildings with 
them. 
Table XII. — Reasons for using truck for hauling on the farm. 
Reasons for using truck. 
Number 
report- 
ing. 
Per 
cent of 
total. 
82 
40 
12 
11 
56 
28 
8 
8 
Convenience 
Other 
