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Show Farmers Make Different Reports to Tax Assessor, Census Questionnaire OOO hogs and pigs; and the assessors asses-sors 20,000. The census bureau reports 1,-169,000 1,-169,000 sheep; the assessors 835,-000. 835,-000. The bureaus reports $93.3 million received from the sale of all livestock live-stock and their products sold; while the assessors value all livestock live-stock taxable and owned in the state as of January 1, 1950, at $14 million. The census bureau reports Utah resident farmers received during 1949 $47 million for cattle, hogs, sheep and horses sold alive. Such animals at the beginning of 1949, when, taxable in this state, were assessed at $14.9 million. Farmers and livestock growers make reports to taxing authorities considerably different from their reports to the U. S. Bureau of the Census, it appears from an analysis made this week by the Utah State Tax Comm. According to the federal census cen-sus bureau, the aggregate values of all farm products sold in Utah in 1949, as shown by replies to questionnaires in connection with the decennial census, was $130,-707,725. $130,-707,725. This does not include farm products used by farm households. house-holds. The census bureau found there were 24,176 farms reported by Utah residents which would make the average gross receipts per farm from the sale of crops, livestock live-stock and livestock products $5,-406.50. $5,-406.50. An analysis of the individual income in-come tax returns received by the state tax commission on 1949 incomes in-comes shows that 13,213 persons reported their principal source of income was farming, and that their gross income from all sources was $30,638,212, or $2,319 average. The tax commission classified the returns received by it in four main classes, according to occupations: occupa-tions: professional, business, farmers farm-ers and wage earners. The only class showing on the returns an average gross income in excess of $5,406 was the profession, where the average of 2,758 returns was $6,600 gross income. Of the nearly $131 million sold by Utah farmers in 1949, according accord-ing to the census, $37.3 million were in crops, of which amounted $28.8 million was for ield crops other than fruits, nuts, vegetables, and horticultural specialities. Livestock Live-stock and livestock products brought $93.3 million, of which $16.4 million was for dairy products; pro-ducts; $24.6 for poultry and poultry poul-try products, and $52.4 million for all other livestock and products thereof, which, of course would be chiefly beef cattle, sheep lambs and wool, and hogs. Compared with numbers assessed as reported by county assessors: The census bureaus reports 53,-000 53,-000 horses and mules, as against 34,000 assessed. The census bureau reports 72,- |