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Table 2. -- Average Costs Per Box of Picking and Hauling Citrus Fruits, 1953-54 Season.
 Fresh Fruit Packinghouses and Processors.

 STotal
 : Picking Picking and Hauling
 Item :Hauling:_ :
 :Oranges.Grape- .Tange- :Oranges:Grape-:Tange-
 S : : fruit : rines :fruit :rines
Number of Operators : 23 : 19 : 19 : 18 :
Average Volume boxes :785, 198:601,925:256,044:35, 168:
 Costs per Box cents
Labor:
 Field foremen 1.78 1.44 3.26 1.78 1.44 3.26
 Pickers 17.87 12.09 45.78 17.87 12.09 45.78
 Loaders 2.92 2.92 3.72 2.92 2.92 3.72
 Grove drivers 1.32 .93 2.27 1.32 .93 2.27
 Highway drivers 2.80 2.80 2.80 2.80
 Mechanics .38 .06 .03 .10 .44 .41 .48
 Other labor .03 .01 .01 .03 .01 .01
 Total 3.18 23.98 17.42 55.14 27.16 20.60 58.32
 Workmen's comp. ins. .06 .42 .29 .88 .48 .35 .94
 Payroll taxes .07 .18 .12 .40 .25 .19 .47
 Total labor 3.31 24.58 17.83 56.42 27.89 21.14 59.73

Other Costs:
 Gasoline, oil, grease 2.06 .50 .44 .47 2.56 2.50 2.53
 Repairs 2.02 1.92 1.57 1.76 3.94 3.59 3.78
 Licenses and taxes .27 .06 .04 .11 .33 .31 .38
 Depreciation 1.41 .53 .33 .79 1.94 1.74 2.20
 Insurance .21 .05 .03 .08 .26 .24 .29
 Interest .01 .01 .01 .01 *
 Salaries-Management .20 .37 .23 .70 .57 .43 .90
 Salaries-Office .04 .11 .07 .20 .15 .11 .24
 Supplies and shop expense .07 .03 .07 .07 .03 .07
 Office supplies and expense .01 .01 .01 .02 .02 .02 .03
 Telephone and telegraph .01 .02 .01 .02 .03 .02 .03
 Equipment rental .09 .09 .09 .09
 Travel and auto expense .01 .04 .03 .08 .05 .04 .09
 Miscellaneous expense .03 .14 .07 .09 .17 .10 .12
 Total other costs 6.36 3.83 2.87 4.39 10.19 9.23 10.75
Total Costs 9.67 28.41 20.70 60.81 38.08 30.37 70.48

* Less than $ .00005