Show Cou County ty Farms Yield SPECIAL TO THE CLIPPER By and large 1966 was a bet bet- better bether her ter ter year than most for Davis y fa farmers according a cor g to o a aw tEl survey of farm farm- farmIn In- In comes cones l j COMPARED with the results by farmers and ranchers ranch ranch- 1 ers in many parts of the coun coun- country country try their returns were good Gross receipts In the year from farm operations came to which was 1792 above the prior years year's total Of J f THE FIGURE takes into ac account ac- ac ac- ac accent count cent the cash proceeds from 7 farm as well as government government gov gov- government payments and income In la find which is the value of grown tome products that are consumed on the farm The report released by the Standard Rate and Data Service covers nearly every county in the United States IT SHOWS that the past year vas Yas as a reasonably good one for turners farmers in general although it developed eloped weakness in the final quarter garter Their gross Income r ted C d billion a record Ugh and their net income 3 billion which was more moreIn I than In any year since 1947 7 I j But for tor the average farm forker it remained far farbelow below i JJ Per Der cent below the below the amount that t Was vas earned by the average farm BM-farm O farm worker WHICH EXPLAINS in part the ns discontent that pervades the I farm community I The farmer has gone to considerable considerable considerable con con- e expense pense and effort to improve the efficiency of his op- op eza Investing in newer and i better machinery and going in for more intensive cultivation but his production gains have been nullified by the steady rise In production costs A BREAKDOWN of the cash receipts from farm in Davis County indicates ac according according according ac- ac cording to Department of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Agri Agri- culture findings that about 36 per cent of It was from the sale I of crops and 64 per cent from fromI sales of livestock dairy products products products prod prod- I and poultry Related to the county's farm population the gross income locally was at the rate of per farm resident THIS TillS YEAR despite a strengthening of II livestock v est 0 c k prices partially offset by ade- ade a de decline decline de- de cline in grain prices and in some other crops the squeeze on the American farmer has become become be become be- be come greater due to a continuing continuing continuing contin contin- rise in production costs |