TABLE 2.--Average Costs per Box of Picking and Hauling Citrus Fruits, 1956-57 Season.
 Fresh Fruit Packinghouses and Processors


 Item Hauling Picking Total: Picking and Hauling
 Item Haul ing -----2------------
 Oranges Grape- Tange- Oranges Grape- Tange-
 fruit rines fruit rines
 Number of operators 22 22 22 22
 Average volume (boxes) 856,709 630,650 228,455 49, 805
 Costs per box (cents)
 Labor:
 Field Foreman ... 2.23 1.68 4.18 2.23 1.68 4.18
 Pickers ... 18.33 13.03 51.22 18.33 13.03 51.22
 Loaders ... 3.17 2.97 3.52 3.17 2.97 3.52
 Grove drivers ... 1.60 1.17 3.41 1.60 1.17 3.41
 Highway drivers 2.35 ... ... ... 2.35 2.35 2.35
 Mechanics ,11 .05 .05 .04 .16 .16 .15
 Other labor .07 .17 .20 .17 .24 .27 .24
 Total 2.53 25.55 19.10 62.54 28.08 21.63 65.07
 Workmen's comp.ins.,
 payroll taxes .15 1.00 .84 2.32 1.15 .99 2.47
 Total labor 2.68 26.55 19.94 64.86 29.23 22.62 67.54
 Other Costs:
 Gasoline,oil, grease 1.57 .64 .58 .62 2.21 2.15 2.19
 Repairs 1.72 1.53 1.63 1.45 3.25 3.35 3.17
 Licenses and taxes .39 .10 .06 .22 .49 .45 .61
 Depreciation 1.37 1.09 .54 2.38 2.46 1.91 3.75
 Insurance .21 .12 .08 .27 .33 .29 .48
 Interest a a a a a a a
 Salaries--management .34 .59 .39 1.17 .93 .73 1.51
 office .14 .32 .22 .70 .46 .36 .84
 Supplies--shop expense .03 .12 .13 .11 .15 .16 .14
 Ofc. supplies and exp. .02 .02 .02 .04 .04 .04 .06
 Telephone and telegraph .02 .06 .04 .15 .08 .06 .17
 Equipment rental .06. .15 .08 .05 .21 .14 .11
 Travel and auto expense .05 .25 .15 .63 .30 .20 .68
 Foreign labor expense ... .40 .22 1.04 .40 .22 1.04
 Miscellaneous expense .12 .10 .09 .23 .22 .21 .35
 Total other costs 6.04 5.49 4.23 9.06 11.53 10.27 15.10
Total Costs 8.72 32.04 24.17 73.92 40.76 32.89 82.64

 aLess than .005 cents.
 bIncludes lights, water, legal and audit, advertising, dues and subscriptions, donations
and bad debts.