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<br />c.o <br />1.-:'") <br />~ <br />..-I <br /> <br />Sources of agricultural production data and procedures have been discussed <br />on page 17. In addition, information was used from interviews with <br />technicians who were well acquainted with the area. <br /> <br />Agricultural P~oduction <br /> <br />Annual data for crop acreages, production, and values were compiled for the <br />1943-60 period because satisfactory water-supply data were available for <br />that period only. Averages for 1943-49, and 1950-56 show trends within the <br />1943-60 period ,table 39). <br /> <br />Fruit acreage averaged less than 7~ percent of total land irrigated in <br />1943-60 but its gross value was 54 percent of all crops harvested. All <br />hay acreage comprised almost 32 percent of the irrigated acreage but <br />accounted for slightly less than 25 percent of gross value of all crops <br />harvested. (Irrigated pasture was not considered part of cropland <br />harvested in determining gross crop values.) Irrigated pasture acreage <br />amounted to 31~ percent of total irrigated and combined with all hay <br />acreage, comprised over 63 percent of the irrigated land. Alfalfa hay <br />accounted for the largest acreage of any single crop harvested with 29 <br />percent. Average irrigated acreage of the Whitewater subbasin for the <br />1943-60 period has been estimated at 5,800 acres. <br /> <br />Currently, there are 23 Forest Service permits for cattle. Cattle number <br />4,974 head and usually graze from June 1 to October 15 for a total of <br />21,005 animal-unit months. Sheep ranches have three permits qo graze 695 <br />sheep from July 1 to September 15 for a total of 333 animal-unit months. <br /> <br />Bureau of Land Management permits total eight for cattle ranches head- <br />quartered in the subbasin with 4,614 animal-unit months of grazing. Sheep <br />permits number one for ranches headquartered in the subbasin with 300 anima1- <br />unit months of grazing. Sheep are .of minor importance in the Whitewater <br />subbasin. <br /> <br />Number of cattle, tons of all hay, and acres of irrigated pasture are a <br />few of the items presented in table 40 for census years 1944-59. Numbers <br />of cows and'heifers that have calved, decreased from 1,224 in 1944 to <br />1,155 in 1959. All hay produced, increased from 3,555 tons in 1944 to <br />5,235 tons in 1959, and irrigated pasture increased from 1,373 acres to <br />1,829 acres. <br /> <br />A comparison of the value of farm products sold by source and value of <br />crops harvested can be made from table 40, also. Value of livestock and <br />livestock products sold, other than poultry and poultry products and dairy <br />products, were highest in 1959 followed by 1949. Value of fruit sold was <br />high~st in 1954 and next highest in 1959. Thus, the spread between value <br />~f farm products sold and value of crops harvested was greatest in 1959, <br />followed by 1949 and 1954. Sufficient spread existed in 1944 for cattle- <br />men to feed livestock rather than sell their feed crops, and better <br />utilization was made of irrigated pasture and field residue. <br /> <br />- 95 - <br />