PEOFITS IN FAEMING ON IEEIGATED AEEAS IN" UTAH. 



11 



Table VI develops the interesting point that the total labor 

 expense constitutes nearly 50 per cent of the total farm expenses. 

 This is in a large measure due to the intensive type of agriculture 

 followed in that district. Of this labor less than half , is hired. 

 This is the only region in which farm-management surveys have been 

 made where the expense of unpaid family labor is greater than that 

 for hired labor. The sugar-beet industry may account for this condi- 

 tion. Taxes are high throughout the entire region and form over 15 

 per cent of the total farm expense. 



SUGAR-BEET GROWING ON SMALL FARMS. 



In Table VII data are given for 25 small farms on which sugar beets 

 are the leading cash crop, no fruit being grown. Sixteen of these 

 farms were operated by their owners ; the other nine were farms whose 

 owners rented additional land. 'There was an average of 5.2 acres 

 of beets per farm on those operated by owners, while the other nine 

 farms had an average of 7.6 acres. It is exceedingly interesting to 

 note that these nine owners had almost identically the same area in 

 crops, but had $2,000 less capital. Their total farm receipts were 

 nearly the same, expenses the same, and labor income practically 

 the same. One thing is certain, that the man with small capital 

 should rent rather than buy in that area. 



Table VII. — The raising of sugar beets on small farms. 



Items of inquiry (averages). 



First 

 group, 16 



farms 

 operated 

 by owners. 



Second 

 group, 9 



farms 

 operated 

 by owners 



renting 



additional 



land. 



Farm area owned 



Additional area rented. 



Area cropped 



Area in sugar beets 



Capital 



Receipts 



Expenses 



Farm income.. 

 Labor income . 



.acres., 

 .do.... 

 .do.... 

 .do.... 



19.1 

 5.2 



3,103 

 995 

 426 

 569 



12.7 

 11 



20 

 7.6 



S4.038 

 900 

 457 

 443 

 241 



The results in Table VII are also interesting in that they show 

 what can be expected of a small 20-acre farm devoted to sugar-beet 

 raising. Only nominal wages are received by the owner following 

 this type of farming. Of the farm owners, 11 received less than $300 

 as a labor income. Only one man received over $1,000 labor income, 

 he having a few acres of beets in connection with a special poultry 

 farm. Even if these small farmers have no mortgage to pay and 

 have the entire amount of their farm income to live on, their savings 

 and funds for living expenses are small. 



