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Show County Near Top hRefcetsj ! f From'flgrioilture A third "of Utah's counties, including in-cluding six of the most populus, accounted for TO per cent of the total cash income "from sale of agricultural products in 1957, last year for which complete data are avallablei a Utah Agricultural Experiment Station economist has found.- -;.. Dr. Douglas C Strong, assistant professor of agricultural economics econom-ics at Utah State University has completed a county-by-county tabulation of cash farm receipts for 1956-57 which show total agricultural receipts amounted to $146,805,000 In 1957, an increase of 3.3 per cent over the previous year and highest since 1953. Iron County was In .the upper tier of counties ' in agricultural Income with total cash receipts of $3,608,000 uvl957 compared to $3,461,000 in 1956. Receipts from sales of livestock and livestock products Including poultry and dairying accounted for $2,836,000 of the' Iron county total and crop sales adding an-other an-other $764,000. Sheep. ; lamb and Wool: sales topped the Iron county agricultural agricul-tural enterprises at $1,521,000. Beef rati and calves sold totaled total-ed $810,000. Potatoes, hay and wheat were the county's dominant cash rrotw In the order named. Potato salon were $275000. hay S2.T8.000 and wheat $114000. Dairying accounted ac-counted for $202,000 and poultrv products brought $130,000 In cash sales. Utah eountv ranked at th ton with SOTlnilrtiral receipts o S16.736.000 and Box Elder count w second with Income of $16 SM.flnrt, Dr. Strong's tabulation reveal. I)1rvlnr outranked oil individual indiv-idual slfilHiral enterprise fr the state with ch retntu diir incr the vear of S32. 417.000. Other llvetork nrnrfct lneludln( poultry added $63,870,000. |