BULLETIN OF THE 
No. 117 
Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wm. A. Taylor, Chief. 
July 24, 1914. 
PROFITS IN FARMING ON IRRIGATED AREAS IN 
UTAH LAKE VALLEY. 
By E. H. Thomson, Agriculturist, arid H. M. Dixon, Scientific Assistant, 
Office of Farm Management. 
INTRODUCTION. 1 
The aim of the work in this farm-management survey was (1) to 
determine the profits that farmers receive in the irrigated areas and 
(2) to analyze the farm business and thereby to determine what 
factors apparently control their income. Data were also needed in 
respect to certain farm enterprises to determine the feasibility of 
developing these on the new areas that are to be opened up by the 
Strawberry irrigation project. Such investigations are particularly 
desirable at this time in view of the fact that this project , which it is 
estimated will furnish water for 60,000 acres of land, is now nearing 
completion. 
Much of the area included in this project is now dry farmed or only 
partially irrigated. With the large quantity of water available at its 
completion it becomes important that the farms on the new areas be 
carefully organized, so as to insure a proper and safe development of 
the entire agricultural district. It is necessary to know the size of 
the farm and the type of agriculture that will succeed under the con- 
ditions existing in the valley where the project is situated. 
All data included in this bulletin have been obtained by personal 
interviews with farmers in the area considered. Although the infor- 
mation in many cases is based on the farmers' estimates, it is believed 
that the results are reasonably accurate for all practical purposes. 
The field studies were made in October, 1913. The results, there- 
fore, pertain to the crop season of that year. 
1 Acknowledgment is due to It. J. Evans and D. W. Working, who assisted in collecting the data pre- 
sented in this bulletin. Valuable aid was received from the report of a soil survey of Provo area, Utah, 
published in 1903 by the Bureau of Soils of the United States Department of Agriculture. Thanks are 
extended to the many farmers in the regions studied through whose courtesy this work was made possible. 
Note. — This bulletin deals with the results of a farm-management survey of about 100 irrigated farms 
in Utah Lake Valley in Utah. 
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