Show 1 U I IE longer hauls at less cost disclosed in reports to bureau of crop estimates DUE TO 10 GREATER CREATES efficiency made over passenger cars and trailers are used by farmers in various parts of united states for hauling crops prepared by tho united states department or oc agriculture Motor truck hauls in 1918 from farm to shipping point averaged miles while wagon hauls averaged 9 miles and a motor truck made 34 round trips per day over its longer route of miles while wagons made 12 round trips per day over the 9 mile distance the estimated cost of hauling in wa wagons gons from farm to shipping point averaged in 1918 about 80 30 cents a ton a mile for wheat 33 cents for corn and 48 cents for cotton for hauling in motor trucks or by tractors the averages are arc 15 cents tor for wheat or corn and IS 18 cents a ton mile for otton these figures are based on re A I 1 k IS N V X loading produce into a Motor truck ports made by correspondents of the bureau of crop estimates of the united states department of agriculture motor cost Dec declines iines A similar inquiry in showed an average for wagons of 19 cents per ton mile for hauling corn or wheat and 27 cents for cotton in 1913 wagon costs were naturally higher since prices and wages have increased but motor truck costs were much lower in 1918 than even the wagon costs of 1918 due to greater efficiency of tile motor truck the cost of wagon hauling a ton mile for wheat among the geographic divisions in 1918 was lowest in the pacific states 22 cents above this in order are the north central states cast of the mississippi river with 26 cents the west north central states 29 cents the west south central 52 cents the east south central 30 cents new england and the middle atlantic states 38 cents the south atlantic states 39 cents and high est cst of 0 all tile alie rocky mountain states with 42 cents a ton mile in motor truck heuling the order arl of the ae different divisions of 0 the country begins with 9 cents a ton nicie mie for wheat in 1918 in tile the last east north central 10 cents ln in the lic East South central 14 cents in new england tho middle atlantic and the west north central 35 15 cents in the west south central 17 cents in the pacific 18 cents in the south atlantic and 20 29 cents in the rocky mountain states trailers often used the motor trucks generally in use by farmers are not large trucks but small ones whose nominal capacity is usually one to two tons in quite a number of counties throughout the country the trucks used for hauling are made over passenger cars in some cases light wagons are attached as trailers to ordinary passenger cars cai and produce is taken to market in that way in north dakota and california as well as other states tractors each drawing several wagons are used for hauling grain trailers are also used especially in the west with horse drawn wagons for the united states as a whole the average wagon load of wheat was 55 5 bushels in and ag bushels in 1918 and the motor truck load in the latter year was 84 bushels for corn the wagon loads of 1005 1906 and 1918 were 39 bushels and the motor truck load of 1918 was 58 bushels the cotton load for 1906 and 1918 for wagons was 34 and 36 bales respectively and for motor trucks GG bales in 1918 |