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prominence, and obtaining over 80 per cen< of their total receipts 

 from the two enterprises. Of these, 37 combined hay farming with 

 either grain farming or dairying, I combined it with the production 

 of beef cattle, and 2 combined it with poultry raising. Hay farming 

 is found on farms of all sizes, though the medium and larger-sized 

 farms fsee fig. 5) are better adapted to the enterprise than the smaller 



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Fig. .5.— Ad alfalfa hay farm— cutting the first crop of the season. 



farms, as will be shown in tables presented farther on. The average 

 results obtained in hay farming and its various combinations are 

 shown in Table VI : 



Table VI. — Results ohtained in hayfarminq in the irrigated valleys of southern Arizona, 



1913 to 1915. 



Type of farming and percentage of receipts 

 from leading enterprises. 



Hay, 69.7. 

 Hay, 43.7. 



firain, 36. 1 

 Hay, 40.5. 



Dairy, U.l 



Number 



Average 



Ti " I 



of farms. 



area. 



receipts. 





Acres. 





85 



100 



S3, 742 



} » 



96.7 



3,212 



} » 



63.0 



2,792 



Farm 

 income. 



Labor 



income. 



12, no 



1,803 

 1,709 



$•120 

 143 



556 



Number 



failing 



to make 



8 per 

 cent on 

 invest- 

 ment. 



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Success in hay farming is greatly influenced by both price and 

 yield. The effeel of increasing yield per acre with price remaining 

 nearly constant is shown in Table VII: 



