10 BULLETIN 582, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
quite secondary to other enterprises. Operators have been much dis- 
couraged in recent years over the outlook for fruit growing, especially 
peaches. The men not already on fruit farms do not feel that they 
can safely depend on such sources for their income. Accordingly the 
area of new plantings is small. 
TABLE 7.—Distribution of crop receipts on farms operated by their owners and 
on farms whose owners rent additional land. 
. On 22 farms operated b 
On 75 farms operated by their owners renting addi- 
berg tional Jand. 
i Aver- 
First Second | Third aes |S 4 BES i 
group | group e TS econ _ | farms 
group (29 (20 Aver group |group (14 Aver 
Source of crop receipts. Es fruit live- Hee (8small| general eee : 
farms), {And beet| stock - | farms). | farms). ). 
*| farms). | farms) 
qi q q q q q | q 
d isd d led/ d iss| 8 Sel d Se] d Es Slee] d Se 
& |So| & 160] 8 |So] & |Sco| 8 (S56) &B |So] SiSol & [SS 
BS 1OrP] eS ar es ar] ar) FH jar] - AaFl Fe Ar] 4 ar 
Ble |e Ge a Be Ee a] & Eola | & ee 
Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per 
ct. ct. ct. ct. ct ct ct. ct. 
(Cloyne sel Ue Aeeaak ees aes as) PS eae ica AIL CN OhAN CHP OMT eek Seles se) sos eioedoeac $1/ 0.1 
Potatoes 5 Rtas Mee ees ay i $57| 7.5| $41) 2.8) 43) 4.6] 47] 4.3] $87/13.3] $83) 8.0] $85) 9.4 56] 5.3 
Wihea te eee oh ne oe 8} 1.1) 78) 5.3) 6) .6) 34! 3.1) 39) 6.0) 49 6} 45) 5.0) 37] 3.5 
CORY ISS Soe ii a Sega eel ae oe | Dera tia Bp cae yp add tal Ae al bee 22) 2.0) 13) 1.4 | .5 
MPA Vee ice ieee ce as Shs -6| 100] 6.7|. 20) 2.1/ 46] 4.2 45] 4.3} 30] 3.3) 42) 4.0 
Bee isis as Weare: Sees 162/21.2) 399/26.9] 783/82.9] 419/38. 4] 473]72.4| 629/60.0] 572/63.5| 455/43. 4 
MrdcksCropssascscseeeee enue 65) 8.5] 61] 4.1) 13] 1.4 50) 4.6) 22) 3.4 88} 8.3] 64] 7.0) 53) 5.1 
Applesti eee UE eS 162)/21.2) 166/11.2} 59) 6.2) 135/12.4) 21] 3.2) 52) 5.0) 40] 4.4) 114/10.9 
Peaches. . mist aes LR ea EN ge 175\23.0} 230)15.6) 5) .5) 151)13.9]..._]...- 56| 5.3} 35) 3.9) 125)11.9 
Other fruit mainelet ieee cee ie 122/16.0] 367/24.8) 8 .9| 187|17.2) 7) 1.1) 25) 2.5) 19) 2.1] 148/14.1 
Miscellaneous crops...-...... Bes BuO RAN SC Saye TART eG ors Albee 10m Si alee Meee ae 13) 1.2 
otal seve. So ko: 763} 100}1, 481] 100} 945) 100)1, 089) 100} 653} 100)1, 049) 100) 905} 100/1, 049) 100 
A person driving through this section in a casual way might come 
to the conclusion that fruit formed the chief product. In 1914, how- 
ever, fruit contributed but one-sixth of the total farm receipts on the © 
97 farms of Table 7. Excluding dry-land farms the average size of 
100 farms surveyed is 54.64 acres, with 5.22 acres in bearing fruit 
and 1.76 acres not yet in bearing. Fruit, bearing and not bearing, 
occupied only one-eighth of the farm area. On the whole, it seems 
just as well that the proportion is no larger. 
The sugar beet is the most important cash crop for this area as a 
whole. (See Pl. III.) Nearly 50 per cent of the total crop sales on 
the 97 farms in Table 8 and a fifth of the total receipts were from 
beets. Those operators who rent additional land secure from three- 
fifths to three-fourths of their crop receipts from beets, and the live- 
stock farmers average more than four-fifths of their crop receipts 
from this source. 
Sugar beets in Utah bring only a moderate price—$4.75 to $5 per 
ton—in most cases in the Provo area. But this price is steady. The 
