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<br />"",,;,.;r,t:!9t., <br />: '. .t, <j .' "- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Agricultural Development <br /> <br />Table 5. -- Value of farm products, Boulder County, <br />Colo., 1959 <br /> <br />Item' <br /> <br /> VAlllP' nf' :n'Y'nrhu..t,l=: !=:nlrl <br /> Dollars Percent of total <br />$ 2,549,866 13.1 <br /> 16't50,020 86.9 <br />$19, 99,886 100.0 <br /> <br />Crops <br />Livestock & livestock <br />products <br />Total sales <br /> <br />Source: U. S. Census of Agriculture <br /> <br />Farms have been classified according to type by the census. <br />Generally, the criteria for designating farm type are based on <br />product sales value totaling 50 percent or more of the total value <br />of farm products sold. Under these criteria, Boulder County farms <br />were divided into the farm types shown in table 6. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Table 6. --Types of farms, Boulder County, <br />Colo., 1959 <br /> <br />Type of farm <br /> <br />Percent of total <br /> <br />Cash grain & other field crops 14 <br />Livestock and general farms 34 <br />Dairy 18 <br />Poultry 5 <br />Vegetable 2 <br />Miscellaneous & Unclassified 27 <br />Total 100 <br /> <br />Source: U. S. Census of Agriculture <br /> <br />Farm Expenditures <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Farm expenditures for Boulder County, shown in table 7, are <br />indicative of the influence of livestock on the agricultural economy <br />of the area and on the general economy in and near the St. Vrain Creek <br />basin. <br /> <br />26 <br /> <br />''''''''''','-''' '...'. <br /> <br />