Show FARMERS REP REPORT ORT TO TAX I 1 I 1 AUTH authorities JS DIFFERENT T THAN THA TO U S BUREAU OF CENSUS salt lake city utah farmers iP and livestock growers make reports to taxing authorities considerably sider ably different from their reports to the U S bureau of the census it appears from an analysis made this week by the utah state tax commission according to the federal census bureau the aggregate value of all farm products sold in utah in 1949 as shown by replies to do questionnaires in connection with the decennial census was this does not include farm products used by farm households the census bureau found there were farms reported by utah residents which would make the average gross receipts per farm from the hie sale of crops livestock and livestock products an analysis of the individual income tax lax returns received by the state tax commission on 1949 incomes shows that 13 1213 persons reported their principal source ot of income was farming and that their gross income from all sources was or 2319 average the tax commission classified the he returns received by it in four our main classes according to occupations professional bus business farmers and wage earners the only class sh showing rn on the returns an average gross income in excess of was ith ithe profession fes sion where the aver average aWro oi of 2758 returns was gross income of the nearly million sold iby by utah farmers in 1949 according to the census million were in crops of which amount million was tor lor field crops other than fruits nuts vegetables and horticultural specialties livestock and products brought million of at which million was for dairy products for poultry and poultry products and 52 4 million for all other livestock and products thereof which of course would be chiefly beef cattle sheep lambs and wool and hogs comparing with numbers assessed as reported by county assessors the census bureau reports horses and mules as against assessed the census bureau reports hogs and pigs and the assessors the census bureau reports sheep the assessors the bureau reports million received from the sale of all livestock and their prod pro ducts sold while the ithe assessors value all livestock taxable and owned in the state as of january 1 1950 at 14 million the census bureau reports utah resident farmers received during 1949 47 million for or cattle hogs sheep and horses sold alive such animals at the beginning ginni rag of 1949 when taxable in this state were assessed at million the ceskus bureau takes the fhe farm census every five years when the report of the 1950 census is compared with those of former years various recent trends in agriculture become apparent for example the value of all farms and buildings tharion in 1920 was found to be nearly million in 1920 it had dropped to million by 1940 but rose to million in 1945 and to about in 1950 the number of farms was iri id 1920 rose to by 1935 in the midst of the depression dropped to in 1940 I 1 rose to in 1945 and was down to in 1950 similarly there were persons listed as bamily and hired workers on farms iri 1935 in ia 1940 iri in 1945 and in 1950 the acreage of sugar beets harvested was in 1910 had dropped to by 1934 was in 1939 in 1944 and in 1949 As might be expected the number of horses land mules on farms dropped sharply and continuously ever since the 1920 census when it was to about in the 1950 count cattle numbered y i 1920 dropped during the depression to in 1940 and rose to in 1950 swine numbered in 1920 in 1930 rose rather steadily to in 1945 1045 but were only in number in 1950 the number of cows milked has varied considerably the census reports show the of 1950 being about an average but less lass than it was five fi ve years before the number of other cattle rose about during the same five years the number of sheep and lambs appears to have been at a very low mar mark k in 1950 the census bureau re reports port s in 1920 in 1930 and in 1935 in 1940 in 1945 tout but only in the 1950 summary this commission of course realizes said patrick healy jr chairman of the state tax commission that census figures and assessors reports are not fully comparable and the reports filed under the individual income tax law cover a field different from either qt of the other two yet making all allowances for far such differences it would hardly seem that farmers or livestock men as a class cari can justly complain of |