Show The County Agents Report Duchesne County Farm News by Lloyd Smith and Norris PROPERTY TAX Property tax is a factor of concern and some consternation to farm owners and managers as well as business and industrial managers and even private home contrary to general almost everyone pays property taxes few people really understand The property tax is the backbone of county services and according to Leon Extension farm management specialist with the at Property taxes are levied on all privately-owned farm residential also on industrial and commercial real estate All including and all and motor arc Cooperatives pay property taxes on their properties just as individuals and corporations taxes on their Few kinds of property are not Among those ignored or exempt in are household furniture and stocks and grazing of government and church-owned The property tax provides money to operate all including grade high and much of the cost of state-operated institutions of higher learning The property tax finances county most city and county including county roads county hospitalization and welfare aid for the also noxious weed mosquito and other For the state as a and for most industrial and commercial properties pay the largest portion of the total property tax followed by residential agricultural properties and motor vehicles The burden of adding services or improving existing services financed by the property according to falls upon the owners or of property in proportion to the total assessed he many property owners have quite naturally felt that they bear much more than their share of the tax in many of these folks would be surprised to discover that they are not actually paying their proportionate share for the services PEST CONTROL Outstanding developments in pest control have occurred during the past 20 F. Extension observes following th Annual meeting of the Entomological Society of held this in Salt Lake City Synthetic organic herbicides came on the market in with hormone-type sprays in Synthetic organic fungicides were developed by With the introduction of I a flood of new synthetic organic insecticides came on the market in 5 Since the introduction of many other new insecticides have including the systemic-insecticides such Co-Ral and a number of In spite of the advances that have been made to control Insects mites still take a total of about in the U. S. each it would seem that the task to keep an on our numberless insect enemies is Knowlton Farming today is an expensive Growers can no longer and otherwise handle their farms and orchards and then sit back and watch these insects as well as and plant undo their he |