TABLE 1.--Average Cost Per Box for Picking and Hauling Citrus Fruit, 1956-57 Season.
 Citrus Dealers Specializing in Buying and Selling, Picking and Hauling

 Buying Picking All operations: Buying,
 Item and Hauling selling,picking, hauling
 selling Oranges Grape- Tange- Oranges Grape- Tange-
 fruit rines fruit rines
Number of operators 8 7 8 7 2
Ave. volume (boxes) 1,283,460 1, 069, 400 682,869 201,993 28,436

 Cost per box (cents)
Labor:
 Field foremen 2.04 1.92 1.97 2.04 1.92 1.97
 Pickers 18.16 11.44 50.73 18.16 11.44 50.73
 Loaders 2.37 2.25 3.77 2.37 2.25 3.77
 Grove drivers 1.28 1.41 1.24 1.28 1.41 1.24
 Highway drivers 3.04 ... .. ... 3.04 3.04 3.04
 Mechanics .01 .36 .10 .10 .68 .47 .47 1.05
 Other labor .01 .08 .67 .48 .38 .76 .57 .47
 Total .02 3.48 24.62 17.60 58.77 28.12 21.10 62.27
Workmen's comp.ins.,
 payroll taxes a .10 .77 .53 2.26 .87 .63 2.36
 Total labor .02 3.58 25.39 18.13 61.03 28.99 21.73 64.63
Other Costs:
 Gasoline, oil,grease .03 1.67 .50 .43 1.20 2.20 2.13 2.90
 Repairs .02 1.13 .51 .30 1.44 1.66 1.45 2.59
 Licenses and taxes .01 .43 .09 .06 .24 .53 .50 .68
 Depreciation .05 1.74 .63 .37 3.03 2.42 2,16 4.82
 Insurance .01 .23 .07 .04 .16 .36 .33 .45
 Interest .10 .11 .13 .11 .46 .34 .32 .67
 Salaries-management .54 .66 .82 .41 4.84 2.02 1.61 6.04
 office .21 .24 .29 .19 .95 .74 .64 1.40
 buyers .14 ... ... ... .14 .14 .14
Brokerage and commission .49 ... ... ... ... .49 .49 .49
Supplies and shop expense ... .05 .18 .14 .56 .23 .19 .61
Ofc. supplies and expense .04 .05 .06 .03 .18 .15 .12 .27
Telephone and telegraph .25 .05 .05 .04 .13 .35 .34 .43
Lights, water, power .02 .03 .03 .02 .07 .08 .07 .12
Equipment rental .01 .40 .25 .21 .15 .66 .62 .56
Travel and auto .27 .07 .08 .06 .29 .42 .40 .63
Foreign labor expense ... .. .25 .15 ... .25 .15 ...
Miscellaneous expense .18 .16 .32 .25 .67 .66 .59 1.01
 Total other costs 2.37 7.07' 4.26 2.81 14.37 13.70 12.25 23.81
Total Costs 2.39 10.65 29.65 20.94 75.40 42.69 33.98 88.44

 aLess than .005 cents.
 blncludes legal and audit, advertising, dues, donations and bad debts.