UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 582 4 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 
Contribution from the Office of Farm Management. 
W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief. 
Washington, D. C. January 7, 1918. 
FARM MANAGEMENT AND FARM PROFITS ON IRRIGATED 
LAND IN THE PROVO AREA, UTAH LAKE VALLEY. 
By L. G. Connor, Assistant Agriculturist. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. Page. 
SOREL EE Hi, CNY a a a 1 | Results by type of farming as well as by size. 17 
PETIT Ae ee ie be lee Peep ee Se eee ees 2 | Possible modifications for greater profit... --. 23 
TROT Ge a Gee a ae en eRe ati POR SE A> faba borin dalmyine Sao ese a eae le 27 
Distribution of receipts......-------------.-- 8 | Possibilities of an extension of live-stock en- 
Distribution of expenses..........-.--..-.-- 12 Fenpriseseuut. 43 2 AGE SS SSS 29 
The farm family—mortgages........-.------- 13 | Uncertain markets and high transportation 
AGASACDDNES 1 BY BYES EAS a 14 CHAT IES Whe Res ues CES Fate ee Se 36 
Mhefarmerisiahors 25522251 iin ee! 14 | Town-dwelling farmers................------ 37 
Influence of outside labor on labor incomes. - 15 | Importance of raising home supplies...-.-..-.-. 40 
The farm-management survey discussed in this bulletin was made 
in 1914 to check the results secured in a similar study* conducted in 
the same area during the previous year. The object of these surveys 
was to determine, approximately, the profits that farmers receive, or 
may reasonably expect to receive, in the irrigated areas of the inter- 
mountain region. (See Pls. I and II.) New data were collected 
with which to make a more complete analysis of the farm as a busi- 
ness enterprise in an effort to ascertain the factors which apparently 
control the income of the farmers in the above areas.? - 
SOURCE OF DATA. 
Farm-management survey records were secured from 106 farms. 
Two of these were discarded, as one operator secured nearly three- 
fourths of his total receipts from outside labor and the other virtually 
conducted a lodging house. The 104 records used in this bulletin are 
1 Bulletin 117, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
2Many thanks are due the farmers who were interviewed in the prosecution of this 
study. A considerable portion of them had to put themselves to some inconvenience in 
furnishiag complete data on the results of their year’s work. Acknowledgment is hereby 
aie them for their hearty cooperation and active interest in the work. Thanks are 
> due the various persons engaged in marketing the farm products of this section 
Oi (particularly to Mr. Wm. Roylance), officials of the Forest and Reclamation Services, 
and to members of the staff of the Utah Agricultural College (particularly to Dr. R. J. 
Eyans and Prof. J. T. Caine, III) for information supplied during the course of the study. 
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