BULLETIN OF THE 



No. 117 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor, Chief. 

 July 24, 1914. 



PROFITS IN FARMING ON IRRIGATED AREAS IN 

 UTAH LAKE VALLEY. 



By E. H. Thomson, 



Agriculturist, and H. M. Dixon, Scientific Assistant, 

 Office of Farm Management. 



INTRODUCTION. 1 



The aim of the work in this farm-management survey was (1) to 

 determine the profits that farmers receive in the irrigated areas and 

 (2) to analyze the farm business and thereby to determine what 

 factors apparently control their income. Data were also needed in 

 respect to certain farm enterprises to determine the feasibility of 

 developing these on the new areas that are to be openea up by the 

 Strawberry irrigation project. Such investigations are particularly 

 desirable at this time in view of the fact that this project, which it is 

 estimated will furnish water for 60,000 acres of land, is now nearing 

 completion. 



Much of the area included in this project is now dry farmed or only 

 partially irrigated. With the large quantity of water available at its 

 completion it becomes important that the farms on the new areas be 

 carefully organized, so as to insure a proper and safe development of 

 the entire agricultural district. It is necessary to know the size of 

 the farm and the type of agriculture that will succeed under the con- 

 ditions existing in the valley where the project is situated. 



All data included in this bulletin have been obtained by personal 

 interviews with farmers in the area considered. Although the infor- 

 mation in many cases is based on the farmers' estimates, it is believed 

 that the results are reasonably accurate for all practical purposes. 

 The field studies were made in October, 1913. The results, there- 

 fore, pertain to the crop season of that year. 



1 Acknowledgment is due to R. J. Evans and D. W. Working, who assisted in collecting the data pre- 

 sented in this bulletin. Valuable aid was received from the report of a soil survey of Provo area, Utah, 

 published in 1903 by the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture. Thanks are 

 extended to the many farmers in the regions studied through whose courtesy this work was made possible. 



Note. — This bulletin deals with the results of a farm-management survey of about 100 irrigated farms 

 in Utah Lake Valley in Utah. 



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