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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. 
Source of crop receipts 
Corn 
Potatoes 
Wheat 
Oats 
Hav 
Beets 
Track crops 
Apples 
Peaches 
Other fruit 
iiiseellaneous crops . 
Total 
On 
farms operated by their 
owners. 
First 
group 
(26 
small 
farms). 
Second 
group 
(29 
fruit 
and beet 
farms). 
Third 
group 
(20 
live- 
stock 
farms). 
Aver- 
age (75 
farms). 
a So 
■3 a =3- 
?-, 
i p* 
Per 
\ct. 
162 21.2' 
65| 8.5 
162 21.2 
175 23. 
122 16. Oj 
7 .9 
§41 2.8 
78 5.3, 
5 .3, 
100' 6.71 
399 26.9 
61| 4.ll 
166 11.2 
230 15. 6 
367 24. S 
34 2,3 
763 : 1001,4811 
100 
Per 
ct. 
0.4 
4.6 
.6 
.1 
2.1 
S2.9 
1.4 
6.2 
.5 
£ 33 
Ptr 
\ct. 
si! o.i 
47 4.3 
34; 3.1 
2L... 
46 4.2 
419 38.4 
50 4.6 
135 12.4 
15113.9 
18717.2 
17 1.6 
On 22 farms operated by 
owners renting addi- 
tional land. 
First 
group 
(8 small 
farms). 
{Per 
ct. 
Second 
group (14 
general 
farms). 
945 1001. 
100 
39 
653 
13.3 
6.0 
1.1 
8 S3 
22 
45 
629 
88 
52 
56 
25 
8.0 
4.6 
2.0 
4.3 
60.0 
8.3 
5.0 
5.3 
2.5 
Aver- 
age (22 
farms). 
572 63.5 
7.0 
4-4 
1001.049, 100 
905 
2-1 
100 
Aver- 
age (97 
farms). 
a B-i 
si 
56 
37 
5 
42 
455 
53 
Per 
ct. 
0.1 
5.3 
3.5 
.5 
4.0 
43.4 
1 
114 10.9 
125 11.9 
14814.1 
13| 1.2 
1.049! 100 
A person driying 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 PI. 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 
