Table 1.-- Average Costs Per Box for Picking and Hauling Citrus Fruit, 1953-54 Season.
 Citrus Dealers Specializing in Buying and Selling, Picking and Hauling.

 S I : Picking All Operations:
 :Buying : :n: Buying and Selling
 Item : and : Hauling: : Picking and Hauling
 :Selling : :Oranges: Grape-:Tange-:OrangesGrape-:Tange-
 : : fruit :rines : :fruit : rines
 Number of Operators : 10 :11 : 10 : 10 : 3
 Average Volume-Boxes 1,206,203:886, 702: 556, 653: 67,463: 4,295:
 Cost per Box cents
 Labor:
 Field foremen 1.77 1.35 2.51 1.77 1.35 2.51
 Pickers 18.68 11.54 44.60 18.68 11.54 44.60
 Loaders 2.34 2.12 2.98 2.34 2.12 2.98
 Grove drivers 1.22 .89 2.16 1.22 .89 2.16
 Highway drivers 2.05 2.05 2.05 2.05
 Mechanics .01 .46 .11 .04 .29 .58 .51 .76
 Other labor .06 .10 .26 .11 .42 .27 .16
 Total .07 2.61 24.38 16.05 52.54 27.06 18.73 55.22
 Workmen's comp. ins. .01 .06 .49 .34 .89 .56 .41 .96
 Payroll taxes .02 .13 .07 .45 .15 .09 .47
 Total labor .08 2.69 25.00 16.46 53.88 27.77 19.23 56.65

 Other Costs:
 Gasoline, oil, grease .06 1.67 .58 .4? .55 2.31 2.22 2.28
 Repairs .05 1.98 .97 .65 .85 3.00 2.68 2.88
 Licenses and taxes .01 .24 .08 .05 .15 .33 .30 .40
 Depreciation .11 1.21 .67 .32 .97 1.99 1.64 2.29
 Insurance .02 .31 .11 .07 .19 .44 .40 .52
 Interest .07 .07 .10 .10 .09 .24 .24 .23
 Salaries-Management .62 .55 .91 .53 2.59 2.08 1.70 3.76
 Salaries-Office .20 .21 .35 .18 .57 .76 .59 .98
 Salaries-Buyers .09 .09 .09 .09
 Brokerage and commission .'67 .02 .05 .04 .09 .74 .73 .78
 Suppliesand shop expense .11 .31 .47 .63 .42 .58 .74
 Officesuppliesand exp. .03 .04 .06 .03 .04 .13 .10 .11
 Telephone and telegraph .17 .05 .05 .03 .08 .27 .25 .30
 Lights, water, power .03 .03 .04 .02 .05 .10 .08 .11
 Equipment rental .03 .09 .12 .05 .25 .24 .17 .37
 Travel and auto expense .29 .04 .07 .04 .13 .40 .37 .46
 Miscellaneous expense .21 .19 .36 .20 1.03 .76 .60 1.43
 Total other costs 2.66 6.81 4.83 3.27 8.26 14.30 12.74 17.73
Total Costs 2.74 9.50 29.83 19.73 62.14 42.07 31.97 74.38
* Less than $ .00005