Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-04 | Page 16 | Business Analysis is Made of Salt Lake County Farms

BUSINESS ANALYSIS IS MADE OF SALT LAKE COUNTY FARMS Business records of ot two seventy-two a average farms In the Sand Sandy area of ot Salt Lake county have been compiled by E. E P. P Brossard Brossard farm management s specialist o- o and Heb Bober r J J. J Webb and hove havo been published b by the tha- Utah Agricultural Agricultural college e at Logan Jogan tho the Idea being to put before the farmer a chart that will enable him to administer his farm better to r run n It in a more businesslike wa way and to conduct It efficiently as a business proposition The figures published deal with the farm studios studies from all points of view of ot the size quality and diversity of tho the business This Is tho the first work of or Its kind In Utah Uta I and agricultural experts exports hero here believe It will trill become one ono of tho the greatest factors for the betterment of farm orm conditions that has yet et been Introduced The In Investigators first took toole data concerning two seventy typical farms In Salt Lake Lako county taking them as 05 the they came the good and the poor alike Th Then n they segregated th the data ato of or tho the ten best farms of or these two seventy I and put the figures In a comparative e column so 50 that readers of ot the bulletin I Just published can see how much I Is lost by the farmer who docs does not keep his farm tarm up to the highest high standard An important Item of the record Is IJ the labor Income of ot the farmer and It is obtained by subtracting from the gross farm receipts the sum of ot the tho total farm expenses and 5 per cent In Interest terest on the capital Invested In the tho business Besides the tho labor Income the tho farmer larmer gets all that the farm produces produces produces pro pro- duces toward tho the family living that Is 16 house to live 11 In In milk butter meat eggs vegetables eg fruits etc The s showing th-s th difference between the Income from the ten b best st farms forms and the whole two seventy farms ars as aa follows SIZE OF D BUSINESS A Aver 0 of f ton tell bet- bet betA A Aver er of or all allter allter ter paying farms 72 farms Total capital 2690 T Total tal acres Total crop acres 40 1 55 65 Total number acres s In sugar beets 91 Total number men 57 2 Total Tot number mulch mUch cows t f f Total number work horses 1 10 Total productive animal units 2240 L 1532 QUALITY OF BUSINESS Milk 1 receipts per cow 11 j 00 I 3 00 Cattle receipts per head J 2500 Net live stock receipts per P. P A. A U 00 SOO Net et live stock receipts per feed fed red 9 Crop receipts per crop acre aero 1750 1672 Crop yields Ields per acre acre acre- 0 j 1 V Potatoes 13 J Wheat hlat 21 21 27 27 Outs Out 61 61 41 1 Barley r. r 48 48 i ti 46 46 Alfalfa 37 31 F r 7 34 Other ha hay 3 31 1 28 8 Su Sugar gar beets 15 1 1 Productive animal units per man 87 s 9 Crop acres acres' per man 05 V Crop acres per horse DIVERSITY D OF BUSINESS 1 J Number sources Income 65 l 5 58 Number umber crops grown c 3 78 Number 1 sources Income Income- r. r x Over O 10 per cent gross receipts 2 2 Sources of or Income over 1 10 P per por r cent tent gross receipts receipts- Milk IHk and butter 4 1035 1035 0 Sheep hogs poultry ou Grain i Labor income 1399 1339 Bushels Tona Tons r T r 0 f I 1 4 i t 1 0