| Show collects data on truck experience 1 opinions and information gathered from various of country prepared by the states state department 0 tho the ncy of the motor truck on the farm liaa has been the fhe subject of considerable sid erable conversation among farmers when a farmer fanner contemplates the purchase of a machine and Is un tin decided as boits to its practicability for his use the experiences of other farm era who have owned and used that particular kind of a 0 machine should be valuable says the united states department part ment of agriculture accordingly the department lias has gathered the tons ions and other moro more definite nite info information rma from froin a largo large number of motor truck users over various parts of the country outstanding facts among tho the outstanding facts suggested by analyzing tho the data collected may bo be suggested tho the following s the uso use of a motor truck in many instances enables a farmer to take advantage vantage of better markets at greater distances from his farm thao than were nvere available when his hauling was done with horses for those truck owners who have changed markets the distance to the now new markets averaged nearly double the distance to those formerly used in the area covered by these reports trucks having a capacity of 1 ton comprised nearly half the total number concer concerning which replies were re calved cel ved while slightly over half of the owners who in 1022 1922 gave their opinions as to the size best suited bulted tor for lhoir conditions stated alicy preferred the iton I 1 ton machines over 00 per cent of the owners stated they believed their trucks would prove ta to be profitable investments Investment Ef and that they intended to purchase others when those reported on were worn out advantages Advant agea of drucks saving of time was given RS as the greatest gren test advantage and poor roads as the greatest disadvantage connected with tho the use of motor trucks on the average it requires less than half the time to make a haul of a given length with a truck that it does with horses not all of the road hauling was done with trucks over 60 per cent of the owners answering this question stated that they used horses for a sm small a 11 p part art of their road hauling whilo while many owners used their inn machines for some hati hauling link on the farm itself a larff ierg j part of such hauling was still done with horses 1 A small percentage of the owners stated that they did some custom work but that it constituted on the average only about one tenth of the total lia hauling tiling done dona with their machines |
