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FARM MANAGEMENT IN THE PROVO AREA, 11 
growers know what their beet crops will bring per unit; the uncer- 
tainty attending the marketing of the fruit crop is absent. With 
land values as high as is the case in this district and with the distance 
to outside markets so great, crops yielding a fairly high return per 
acre and capable of being marketed at home must command a large 
degree of attention. The predominance of the sugar-beet crop is 
therefore only to be expected. It is the mainstay of Utah farming in 
the irrigated areas. If for any reason this crop were to become perma- 
nently unprofitable, farm-management problems of the gravest kind 
would arise. 
Table-8 presents data for a number of small farmers who specialize 
in sugar beets and grow little or no fruit. The importance of the 
sugar-beet crop in the Provo area is again made clear. 
TABLE 8.—Distribution of receipts from 16 sugar-beet farms. (Utah Lake 
Valley.) 
See Second 
group (8 group (8 
First farms First es 
group (8 Gpprated sroug (8 Gecrated 
arms y arms 
Item. operated | owners Ttem. operated OTROS 
by renting by renting 
owners).| addi- owners).| addi- 
tional tional 
land). land). 
Size of farm............ acres. . 16533) |, 20:03%)|| Capitals sess ae 22a eee eta $7, 039 $3, 597 
Farm area owned.....-. GWE nae 16. 33 8.037) ||PRCCeIpUSa)enese see ete ee alae 1,140 1,026 
Additional area rented..do....|.......-.-. 12500)||) HER eNSeSE ¢ Semen cee see cas 414 448 
Cropjareas. 32 ...b 52... dows: 13. 50 1700))||; Harmyincomes= 2 ses s-ecee ses 726 578 
Area in sugar beets.-.... dos. 6. 03 6.60 || Receipts from. outside labor. -. 166 135 
Receipts from sugar beets, Wabor incomes os jos ose. tae ce = 374 398 
dollars see eecoe ieee Soh Sees 503. 00 473.00 
Proportion of total receipts | - 
from crops..-....- per cent... 73. 00 72. 00 
The first group comprises the eight small farms of owners who 
specialized in this crop. Nearly half the crop area is in beets, which 
are raised on 6.03 acres. The labor income averages $374, of which 
$166 came from outside labor. The second group comprises the 
eight small owners with additional land rented. They have a larger 
area in crops and slightly more land in beets. Their labor income 
averages $398, of which $135 comes from outside labor. In both 
groups sugar beets brought in nearly half the total receipts and 
practically three-fourths of the crop receipts. The larger area 
cropped by the men in group 2 suggests that they have a slightly 
ereater diversity of farm enterprises, which normally would tend to 
give a better labor income. It should be noted that the small owners 
with additional land rented have just half as much capital invested 
as the small owners, yet they manage more land and make better 
labor incomes than do the latter, and derive a larger percentage of 
their incomes from strictly farm operations, 
