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Show Farm Success Survey Completed After conducting a business analysis ana-lysis of 270 representative farms in Sanpete and Sevier counties, the Utah Agricultural Experiment . station Tuesday released figures showing that farm sue. ess in the 1 two counties is determined by tiie type of farming, size of farm buinets, efficiency in the use of capital and labor, and rates of production. I Complete information concerning concern-ing the analysis, conducted by the department of agricultural economics of the experiment station, sta-tion, was contained in a bulletin written by Dr. W. Preston Thomas, Thom-as, Dr. George T. Blanch and Miss Edith Hayball The bulletin was published this week. Farms in the survey were divided di-vided into five groups, the bulletin bul-letin stated, according to the! predominating farm enterprises; general irrigated farms, lamb-feeding lamb-feeding farms, sheep ranches, beef cattle farms, and part-time farms. The bulletin also contains a general gen-eral description of the agricultural agricultur-al resources of the area and their uses. As Sanpete and Sevier counties are so advantageously located with respect to the use of national nation-al forest and public domain, sheep ranching was found to be the most profitable type of farming In the analysis. Costs of feeding were low while labor efficiency was high. Also found profitable by the department de-partment of economics was the iamb-feeding enterprise in connection con-nection with the regular production produc-tion of crops, but the other three types of farming in that territory terri-tory were found to contain less profit for the agriculturists. General Gen-eral irrigated farms were not so profitable because of their small size, Inefficiency In the use of labor, small acreage of cash crops and small number of dairy cows. Raising of beef cattle on Irrigated Irri-gated farms was not found profitable, pro-fitable, the report stated, because of the high cost of feeding. Income In-come from part-time farms, however, was the lowest of any farm type. To place these farms" on a paying basis the size of the unit must be increased, rates of crop production increased, labor efficiency Increased, and a reorganization reor-ganization of the farm business with a "better combination of enterprise en-terprise such as proper balance of feed crops, cash crops and live-stock live-stock production," the report averred. |