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Show Farmers Censsis In South Utah Gets Under Way An important survey on the entire en-tire activities of the Utah farmers and the farmers of the nation will take place in -April, V. Max Mof-fitt, Mof-fitt, disrict supervisor of the 17th Decennial Census, announced today. to-day. Agriculture has been a major problem with our governing bodies for a long time and can only be coped with by honest and accurate answers on the census agriculture questionaire which will be sent to the farmer prior to April 1st. The questionaire confronting the farmer farm-er is designed for his own benefit and cannot be used by any private or taxation group and that is provided pro-vided by law. We urge every farmer to really take time to go through his records and fill in exact information on this questionnaire. Some statistics derived from the 1945 agriculture census showed that more than one third of American farmers are 55 years old and more. Owner operators oper-ators average 52 years, while ten- ant farmers average 43 years. Trends which will be brought out by this census include changes in the number of farms, amount of land devoted to agriculture and va lue of farm property. Every farm survey since 1920 has discovered a decrease in number of farms in the country, while the total acreage acre-age in farm land has steadily increased. in-creased. Accompanying these tr -ends is the increased use of mechanized mech-anized equipment. However, 1920 farm census reported farms valued at sixty-six and one-third billions while the 1945 census reported the total farm values had declined $33,600,000,000. The farmer must consider the facts. Agriculture is a major issue with our law makers and almost every plan that effects the business busin-ess of farming begins with the data our census provides. Some of the vital things to be brought out in the census will be irrigation, drainage, grazing and soil conservation. |