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<br />>. . - ~ <br />~,f,_~~~~') <br />t._._ ~ ,-, ,. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Agricultural Development <br /> <br />Table 7.--Farm expenditures, Boulder County, <br />Colo., 1959 <br /> <br />Item <br /> <br />Feed for livestock and poultry <br />Purchase of livestock and poultry <br />Machine hire <br />Hired labor <br />Gasoline, fuel oil, etc. <br />Seed, bulbs, plants, and trees <br />Total <br /> <br />Source: U. S. Census of Agriculture <br /> <br />Land Use <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Value of products purcha.sed <br />(dollars) <br /> <br />$ 4,592,280 <br />8,281,120 <br />291,882 <br />1,145,171 <br />615,821 <br />122,740 <br />$15,049,014 <br /> <br />Boulder County comprises about 750 square miles. The <br />principal land uses are shown in table 8 . <br /> <br />Table 8 . ~-Farm land use, Boulder County, Colo., 1959 <br /> <br />Land use <br /> <br />Cropland harvested <br />Cropland used only for pasture <br />Cropland not harvested and not pastured <br />Woodland pastured <br />Woodland not pastured <br />Other pasture <br />Other land, house lots, roads, & waste <br />Total land in farms <br />Irrigated land in farms <br /> <br />Source: U. S. Census of Agriculture <br /> <br />. Acres <br /> <br />Percent of <br />total <br /> <br />77,709 <br />13,946 <br />19,960 <br />25,676 <br />1,036 <br />135,517 <br />13,622 <br />287,466 <br />73,794 <br /> <br />27.0 <br />4.9 <br />6.9 <br />8.9 <br />0.4 <br />47.1 <br />4.8 <br />100.0 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Table 9 summarizes crop distribution and production for <br />Boulder County as of 1959. <br /> <br />27 <br /> <br />_~__J...Jlo <br /> <br />