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Show Survey Shows Hired Help Pays Farmer To hire help on the farm rather than to neglect the proper care for crops or livestock is a practice of the best managers on Utah farms, according to Dr. O. J. YY'heatley, extension economist nt the Utah Slate Agricultural college. col-lege. Record supplied by 133 Utah county farmers, who cooperated with the extension service of the college and the WPA by keeping records of their farm business last year, show that farmers who hired the greatest amount of labor generally gen-erally had the highest farm returns. re-turns. A few of the farmers whose labor expense was- high failed te receive credits sufficient to cover expenses, however. Of the 29 farmers securing labor incomes exceeding ex-ceeding $600, 8 paid, out an ex cess of 5300 for labor; n spe between 300 and $100 for hir labor, and 10 spent less than $k! Of the 104 farmers who nia less than $1300 for labor incor only 10 spent as much ns $2 for hired labor. The study of -records from the 133 farm's, why clearly suggesting the desirahfi ity of hiring sufficient labor j properly care ior crops and stock, emphasized that the speii ing of money for hired assistant without the operation of otlv good practices in farm nianag ment did not insure an adequa farm income. Dr. Wheatly further points o that the farm records indica that the farm had to be of si ficicnt size, the yields genera average or better, costs of op ating moderate, and crops and e terpriscs wisely chosen to me present economic conditions, to i sure farmers a satisfactory far: income in 1935. ' |