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Show Many People Follow Agriculture. Agri-culture. Washington, D. C, Sept. 3 There nre 131,540 persons employed in Otah that work for a living and 37,-417 37,-417 of them are employed upon the farm, according to a report which has just been issued by the United States Census Bureau. Of the persons engaged en-gaged in agriculturel pursuits, the buik of them are farm operators and farm laborers. The farm operators number 17,890, and 17,437 are males and 453 are women. There are 13,-790 13,-790 farm laborers in the state and 13,549 are males and 241 are females. fe-males. There are 195 dairy farmers in the State and they employ 99 laborers and 3 foremen. There are also 1,369 persons in the State whose principal source of income is from stock raising. rais-ing. The number of cowboys and sheep herders in this Btate is 2,231. In the entire United States there are 71,580,270 persons over lo years of age and 38,167,336, or 53 per cent of this number are engaged in gainful occupations. Of the gainfully occupied, 12,659,203, or 33 per cent are engaged in agriculture. There are 5,865,000 farm operators in the nation and they employ 5,957,000 laborers. j |