PROFITS IK FARMING OX IRRIGATED AREAS IN UTAH. 



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land, the average age was about 5 years less. This would be 

 expected, in that these men represented the transitory step between 

 tenant and owner. It was also noted that on the average the owner 

 had been a tenant 1 year, an owner for 22 years, and an owner of 

 his present farm for 19 years. 



In the case of the owners who rent additional land they had been 

 tenants 2 years, owners 18 years, and owners of their present farms 

 15 years. The average value of the farmhouse was $859; other 

 buildings, $237 per farm. 



EFFICIENCY OF WORK HORSES ON SMALL FARMS. 



Table IX gives the number of work horses per farm and the average 

 crop area per horse, arranged by type of farming. One work horse 

 to 10 acres is the average for all the farms in this district, the larger 

 farms being the most efficient in this respect. Good authorities esti- 

 mate that the annual cost of keeping a horse ranges from $80 to $120 

 a year; hence, each acre in crops must bear an annual charge of at 

 least $8. 



Table IX. — Number of work horses and crop area per horse. 



Farm groups. 



Number 

 of farms. 



Number 

 of work 

 horses. 



Crop area 

 per horse. 



Small 



45 



43 



4 



2.0 

 3.9 

 6.1 



Acres. 



8.3 





11.2 





12.0 









92 



3.1 



10.3 







Comparing this with similar studies/ it is seen that work horses, 

 as utilized on the small farms in Utah, are only 50 per cent as efficient 

 as those on farms of 80 acres or more. 



Aside from survey studies showing the labor incomes of the farmers 

 visited, many data were gathered in respect to the cost of producing 

 certain crops in that area. These data were obtained in the same 

 way as the other facts presented here and not by cost-accounting 



CROPS GROWN IN UTAH LAKE VALLEY. 



SUGAR BEETS. 



For the last 20 years sugar beets have constituted an important 

 crop in this valley. They have been grown with success and are 



i Thomson, E. H., and Dixon, H. M. A farm-management survey of three representative areas in 

 Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. U. S. Department of Agriculture Bulletin 41, 42 p., 10 fig. 1914. 



Warren, G. F., and Livermore, K. C, assisted by Bennett, C M., Kutschbach, H. N., Thomson, E. H., 

 Robertson, F. E., and Baker, E. L. An agricultural survey in Tompkins County, New York. Cornell 

 University Agricultural Experiment Station of the College of Agriculture, Department of Farm Manage- 

 ment, Bulletin 295, p. 375-569, 56 fig. 1911. 



