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Show 95 were tenant farmers. The average age of farm operators in the county was 49.8 years. There .were 304 farm operators 65 or more years of age. Of the 2,358 farms' in the county, 1,228 were commercial farms. Farms total 687,342 acres in Utah County The 1959 Census of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, conducted in Utah county last fall, counted 2,358 farms, according to a preliminary report re-port just issued by the Bureau of the Census, U. S. Department Depart-ment of Commerce. Total land in farms was 687,342 acres. The average size of farm was 291.5 acres. The average value of farms (land and buildings) in the county was $38,510. Of the county's farm operators, opera-tors, 1,601 owned their farms, 624 owned part of the land and rented additional acreage, and |