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<br />"Ti.ble 39.- Average acreage, total production and gross value of principal crops har-
<br /> vested in Whitewater Subbasin, Colorado, 1943-49, 1950-56 and 1943-60
<br /> 1943-49 1950-56 1943-60
<br /> Crops Unit Average :Percent Average :Percent Average :Percent
<br /> :of total: :of total: :of total
<br />Corn
<br /> Harvested Acres 616 12.14 488 8.59 575 10.43
<br /> Production Bushels 25,651 27,445 30,007
<br /> Value Dollars 35,035 44,286 42,444
<br />Oats
<br /> Harvested Acres 994 19.59 1,120 19.72 1,040 18.87
<br /> Production Bushels 39,476 48,111 42 , 92 3
<br /> Value Dollars 30,290 43,099 34,849
<br />Alfalfa hay
<br /> Harvested Acres ( 1,330) '. (26.2?) ( 1,722) (30.32) ( 1,609) (29.19)
<br /> Production Tons ( 3,238) ( 4,839) ( 4,277)
<br />All hay
<br /> Harvested Acres 1,495 29.47 1,819 32.03 1,753 31.80
<br /> Production Tons 3,460 4,980 4,478
<br /> Value Dollars 56,886 109,342 87,857
<br />Fruit
<br /> Harvested Acres 432 8.52 408 7.19 406 7.37
<br /> Value Dollars 206,187 178 , 326 194,055
<br />Total crops
<br /> Harvested Acres 3,537 69.72 3,835 67.53 3,774 68.47
<br /> Value Dollars 328,398 375,053 359,205
<br />Other land irr. Acres 1,536 30.28 1,844 32.47 1,738 31. 53
<br />Total land irr. Acres 1/5,073 100.00 1/5,679 100.00 1/5,512 100.00
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<br />1/ Excludes irrigated land not harvested and not pastured.
<br />Compiled from Colorado Agricultural Statistics and from the U. S. Census of Agri.
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<br />From 1944 to 1959, total farms decreased in number from 66 to 4v, and
<br />average size of farms increased from 459 acres to 760 acres. In the same
<br />period value of land and buildings increated from::; $ 11 ,930 -to';$45 ,.S56.
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<br />Average irrigated acreage per farm increased from 76 acres in 1944 to
<br />123 acres in 1959, for a 62 percent increase. Proportion of irrigated farms
<br />to all farms has remained at about 96 percent, while the proportion of
<br />tenancy decreased from 13 percent in 1944 to 6 percent in 1959.
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