20 BULLETIN 117, TJ. S. DEPAETMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 
those which will meet the economic conditions, be selected. This is 
a problem of great difficulty, for the reason that the conditions change 
so rapidly from year to year that certain enterprises which may be 
good at this particular time may be unfitted to the conditions five 
years hence. 
To illustrate: Suppose the price paid by the factories for sugar 
beets should decrease materially. This would be a serious blow to 
the agricultural development of the entire region, as sugar beets con- 
stitute the chief money crop. It would seem that special attention 
should be given to the development of canning factories, fruit evap- 
orators, and other similar agencies whereby crops suitable to inten- 
sive cultivation can be grown annually without being subject to 
heavy losses resulting from violent fluctuations in prices in the eastern 
markets. 
When we consider the distance of this region from the great con- 
suming centers, it is doubtful whether truck farming and certain 
types of fruit growing should ever be undertaken here. Agricultural 
areas developed at such high costs are under a severe handicap in 
competing with cheaper lands equally productive that He close to the 
great markets of this country. 
It would appear that the development of such types of farming in 
such a region should be limited largely to supplying the local demand 
for the products grown. With the immense areas of fertile soil that 
are still farmed extensively close to our big cities, it would seem that 
the time is not yet ripe for a highly intensive type of agriculture on 
lands so far removed from those markets. 
SUMMARY. 
The results of the preliminary farm-management survey made in 
the irrigated areas in the Utah Lake Valley near Provo and Spanish 
Fork show — 
(1) That an intensive type of agriculture has been developed in certain areas that 
have been under irrigation for a long period of years. This intensiveness is largely in 
the form of sugar-beet growing. 
(2) The average labor income on 35 small farms with.16.5 acres in crops was $247; 
on 30 general fruit and sugar-beet farms with 42 crop acres the labor income was |589; 
and on 4 grain and live-stock farms with 74 crop acres the labor income was $620. 
(3) The profits received are largely influenced by the size of the farm business, 
the type of farming followed, and the diversity of the income. Many farms are so 
small in magnitude of business that the owner can not possibly make a comfortable 
living without outside employment. Of the 54 farmers who had less than 40 acres, 
only 2 men made over $1,000 labor income. More than 60 per cent of them made 
less than $300. Of 25 small sugar-beet growers, only 1 made over $800 as a labor 
income. 
(4) Sugar beets form 33.4 per cent of the total farm receipts on the 92 farms operated 
by owners. They are the one crop on which the farmer depends for money to pay 
taxes and living expenses , 
