Show Farm Population Decreases as Utah's People Increase Utah's farm population decreased de decreased de- de creased from to between 1920 and 1950 while I the total population increased from to during I the same period In 1920 the j I farm population was percent per percent cent of the total State population population population tion but by 1950 the proportion living on farms was reduced to percent This picture of decline in both number numb r and nd percentage of people living on farms is fairly typical of the whole country according to County Agent A. A Fullmer Allred who cites a recent re recent recent re- re cent report on farm population figures published by the Agricultural Agri Agri- Agricultural I cultural Marketing 1 Service of I the U. U S. S Department of Agri Agri- culture For the nation as ns a n whole the I I total population rose between 1920 and 1950 from to people The number number number num num- ber living on farms fell during this same period from to While the total population was increasing itself by almost a n half the proportion living on farms fell from percent to percent Whereas Where Where- as about 1 American out of every 3 resided on a farm in 1920 only about 1 in 6 was as a farm resident by 1950 The proportion of people living living living liv- liv liv liv- ing on farms in the U United n nit i t e c d States has declined rather steadily steadily steadily dily since 1910 the earliest date for which estimates estimates estimates' of f far n a r 1111 m population are available but the actual numbers have fluctuated up and down in response to war and economic influences the agent agent a- a gent reports The total numbers have dropped in the long run however showing a n farm population population lation loss of 21 percent in the four decades between 1910 and 1950 I II I |