Show 1 I F Farm arm rm Own Owners Owners' i Hi Hire ire So Some ome He Help e eN p. p p N To hire help on the farm rather than to neglect the proper care for crops crop or livestock Is a practice of oC tho the best managers on Sanpete farms according to Dr O. O J J. J Wheatley extension extEnsion extension ex ex- tension elX economist at the Utah Agricultural AgrIcuLtural Agricultural Agri AgrI- cultural college Records supplied by 75 Sanpete county farmers who cooperated with the e extension service of the college and the by keeping records rec of their farm business last year ear year show that farmers who hired the greatest amount of or labor generally had the highest farm tarm returns A few of or th the farmers whose labor expense was Vas high failed to receive credits sufficient sufficient BUtT BUtT- to cover expenses expenses' however Ot Of the 32 farmers se securing url g labor incomes in incomes incomes in- in comes exceeding GOO five five paid out an excess of for labor Seven spent between and dud for hiring labor and 20 spent l leas dS than Of or the 43 43 farmers who made mad lees than for labor in income ome only 3 3 spent as much as for hired la bor The study of the records from irom rom the the 75 farms while clearly arly suggesting suggesting suggest suggest- in ing the desirability ot or hiring sufficient sufficient suU- suU I labor or to properly pr c care r for tor crops and livestock l wl that the spending spendin of ot money for hired assistance as as- without the tho Op operation of o E Eother other good practices iI in iu tarn firm management management management man man- did not insure an adequate farm income Dr Wheatley further points out aut that the farm had to be bo of sufficient size the yields Ields generally average or belt better r costs of operating moderate te and crops and enterprise wisely chosen to meet meal present cc economic c conditions to Insure farmers a a. atla- atla satisfactory factory farm income in 1935 |