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Show Report Given On Percentage of Farms With Electric Service A total of 5,357 farms in Utah or 20.4 percent of all the farms in the state, do not have electric service, according to survey results re-sults newly announced by 'the Rural Electrification Administration. Administra-tion. The study, which analyzes the nation's rural electrification progress pro-gress up to June 30, 1947, shows that 225,000,000 farms-or 39 percent per-cent , of all farms in the U. S. were not electrified at that time. The survey ranks Utah as thirty-second on its state-by-state listing of unelectrified farm totals. Compared with other states, therefore, Utah is a national na-tional leader in the field of rural electrification. |