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Show show Var iance j IN STATISTICS Government and State Re-1 pods Differ m Large Degree A total of 26662 farms were tound I in ("tali In 1919 by census takers em- ployed b the government, according to figures received In I'tah yesterday, although the reports of the .isser-sor- Indicated that they had found only 13,027 other Interesting figures are brought out in furtiiei comparison of the Utah crop averages as reported by assessors and the Fourteenth census for 1919. The assessors of the stale reported (hat there were 13,K22 acres f wheat In the Slate In 1919 and the census report shows 2H8,4o7 The wheat acreage of the slate, is a fair sample 'of the other estimates made, although fhe reports In .Salt l-ak unty durlngj Ithe year appear t" be extreme. To' take the general report throughout for this county, the assessor found 148 farms and the census Laker found 2436. The assessor of .Salt l.-ake county coun-ty reported 577 acres of wheat oDd the census taker reported 14,708. The assessor found 104 acres of oats and (ho census report shows 2030. The assessor found twelve acres nr. barley and the census report BlloWS 11CC. The, assessor found eighty-five acres of po- tatoea and the census report shows none The assessor found sixty-two acres of corn and thp census report shown none. The assessor found S24 acres of hay and the census report show's 25,779. The census taker did not in all cases find the greatest number of farms or acres of grain. The estimates vary on different crops and in different counties. coun-ties. The toial acreage of corn reported re-ported show.-, but a slights difference. The assessors reported 13,s5.r. .-iocs ol corn In the stale and the census fa-port fa-port allows 13.S48, a difference of only seven acres Assessors found 34.820 acres of oats In the state and the census takers found 61,826 acres. Assessors found 13.095 acres of barley and the census takers found 15.93S acris. The estimates esti-mates on potatoes, so far as the totals go. are not so widely different. The report of the assessors shows 10.4 0 5 acres and thut of the census shows 12:0-17 acres- The wldi-6t difference Is in the acreages acre-ages of hay as reported. The assessors assess-ors found but 322,856 acres, and the census takers found 538,295 acres, (here being a difference of 215.439 acres. |