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Show News In Brief The projiortion of farm mortgage debt in Utah is 27 per cent of the estimated value of farm lands and improvements, according to an analysis from the office of W. D. Ellis, general agent of the Farm Credit Administration in Oakland, Calif.mia. This is 3 per cent above the average for the nation as a whole. Frr m the fame source we learn that v hile the estimated value of .'ari'.r- has decreased somewhat from 1930 to 1935, still there are more acres o' farm land under cultivation l ow than there were five ears ago. The figures in this regard are estimated at 6,200.000 acres in 1930. The farm population of the United States remained virtually stationary last year, according to a ; recent report fiom the Bureau of Agriculural Economics. The number num-ber of persons living cn farms January Jan-uary 1, 1936 was estimated at 31,-809,000, 31,-809,000, as rcmpared with 31,801,000 r c tar ealier. The number of persons on farms ai the beginning of this year was only slightly greater than in 1920 and was somewhat less than in :S10. IBirths on farms last year were estimate at 727,000, while deaths were placed at 333,000. For the first 9 months? of this ;:ar. total c&ih income frcm farm marketing and from Government payments, was $5,434,000,000 cf which $210,000,000 were Government Govern-ment payment.-. In the corresponding corres-ponding 9 months of last year to-tal to-tal cash faun ii come was $4 830.-GOO.no:i 830.-GOO.no:i cf wh'xh $407,000,000 rep-icsenitd rep-icsenitd Goe-nnvent payments. Cash income from farm production produc-tion in Utah was $36,158,000 in 1!35 an increase of 42 percent over the' 1932 figure of $25,427,000. Of the 1935 income, $1,530,000 was in the form of rental and benefit payments on that year's farm production, pro-duction, according to the U. S. D. A. Cash receipts irom siura ui principal farm products, as reported report-ed from Utah, constitute approximately approxi-mately 97 percent of the cash income in-come fromi production. During the first 7 months of 1936, these cash receipts were 31 percent greater than for the same period in 1935, thus indicating a continued rise in Utah's farm income fcr 1936. D.cught, insect and disease damage dam-age to the 1935-36 Argentine potato crop has resulted in a serious shortage short-age of seed potatoes for the 1936-37 1936-37 crop which the Argentine Government Gov-ernment has attempted to offset to some extent by the purchase of certified seed stock in the United States and Canada for resale to farmers, the Bureau or Agricultural Agricul-tural Economics said today. Farm wages for the country as a whole stood at an index of 110 on October 1, an advance of two points since Julv and of eight points within the year, the Bureau of Ag-'ricultural Ag-'ricultural Economics said recently, nay wages, without board, over the country as a whole, cn October 1, amounted to $1.59 as compared with $1.54 three months earlier and I $1.47 1a year ago. |