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Show FARM NOTES I1Y GOLDEN L. STOKER Heaver County Agent Tho proportion of farm mortgage mort-gage debt in Utah is 27 per cent of the estimated value of farm lands and improvements, according to an analysis from the office of W. D. Ellis, general agent of the farm credit administration in Oakland, Oak-land, California. This is 3 per cent above the average for the nation as a whole. From the same source we learij that while the estimated value of farms has decreased somewhat from 1930 to 1935, still there are more acres of farm land under cultivation now than there were five years ago. The figures in this regard are estimated at 6,200,000 acres in farms at the present time as against 5,600,000 acres in 1930. The farm population of the United States remained virtually stationary last year, according to a recent report from the bureau of agricultural economics. The number num-ber of persons living on farms veplands 3iUni -tasttiJan- rainh January 1, 1936 was estimated at 31, $09,000, as compared with 31,-801,000 31,-801,000 one year earlier. The number of persons on farms at the beginning of this year was only slightly greater than in 1920 and was somewhat less than in 1910. Births on farms last year were estimated at 727,000, while deaths were placed at 333,000. |