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Show FARMS COMPARED WITH OTHER BUSINESS BY GOVERNMENT MAN DurirrT the week past Mr. S. Nuck-ols Nuck-ols of the U. S. Department of Agri-; culture, sugar beet investigations, has 'been holding farmers meetings through the Northern Sanpete County towns, advising the farmers on better ! farming 'methods. His instructions ' and advise to the people, ;if carried out, even in part, will result in increased in-creased production and greater profits. Mr. Nuckols reminds the farmer jlhat his farm 'is like a factory a place to sell his labor and the labor .of his family and his horses. He , must study markets and endeavor to i igrow those crops that will give him the greatest amount of labor and he ; declares that 'if the crop can be grown with a small number of days labor, per acre, even though the net returns t,ier days labor should be large, it will still be more profitable to grow a crop requiring more days of labor with a smalici: net return per day. A team of horses must be fed the entire year. It is more profitable to employ that team 100 days per year on the farm at $2.00 per day than it is 40 days per year at $3.00 per day. Mr. Nuckols refers to a study in farm costs made in a sugar beet area 3'f the West, w here it was shown that a wheat farmer labors about 3 days scr vear per acre to produce an ae.re of wheat while a sugar beet farmer works about 11 days per year per aore and figuring wheat at $1.00 per bushel and sugar beets at $7.50 per ton it was sihown lhat the wheat farmer, farm-er, iitpon the farms studied, works an average of 132 days per year and receives re-ceives $2.47 per day for his work, while the sugar beet farmer works 187 days per year at $5.74 per day. With increasing costs of labor, higher taxes, and greater prices for nearly everything the farmer ibuya it is quite necessary that the higher priced crops be ;rown where the farmer can sell his labor to the best advantage. Sugar beets offer this advantage. Another fact stressed by Mr. Nuckols Nuck-ols is the use of bam yard manure upon the farm. He reffered to some experiments performed at Logan, Utah of applying five tons of manure to wheat land and to sugar beet land. In the first case each ton of manaire ;;ave an increased yield of 2 bushels of wheat, in the case of sugar beet 'and it increased the yield 1.7 tons for each ton of manure applied. Now it $1 00 per bushei for wheat, the nanufe on wheat land is worth $2.00 , ton, while at $7.50 per ton for beets each ton of manure is worth j 2.75 per ton. Mr. Nuckols slogan is "Sell your iabor and your manure to the crop hat will pay you the most for it." |