FARM ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA. 



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enterprise. Fluctuating prices of both range steers and fat cattle 

 introduce a greater element of speculation than is found in the dairy 

 enterprise, and the capital required is greater; but on the whole the 

 enterprise compares very favorably with dairying. Thirty farmers 

 out of the 627 interviewed for these studies made the fattening of beef 

 cattle a leading enterprise, obtaining on the average 61.5 per cent 



Fig. 9. — Fattening steers on alfalfa pasture. 



of their total receipts from this source; and 10 others combined the 

 beef-cattle enterprise with some other enterprise in about equal 

 proportions, obtaining over 80 per cent of their total receipts from 

 the two enterprises. Results that were obtained in beef-cat>tle 

 farming are shown in Table XIV. 



Table XIV. — Results obtained in beef cattle, farming in the irrigated valleys of southern 



Arizona, 1913-1915. 



Type of farming and percentage of receipts 

 from principal enterprises. 



Beef cattle, 61.5 



Crops, 17.6 



Beef cattle, 41.7 

 Grain, 34.2 



Number 

 of farms. 



Average 

 area. 



Number 

 failing to 

 make 8 

 per cent. 



Average 

 receipts. 



| 30 



} 5 



Acres. 

 298 



370 



6 

 1 



811,101 

 12, 211 



Average 



farm 

 income. 



Average 



labor 

 income. 



S7, 155 

 5,295 



S2, 146 

 1,505 



HOG FARMING. 



Six farmers out of 627 made hog raising a major enterprise, obtain- 

 ing an average of 50.6 per cent of their total receipts from this source. 

 There were only 31 farms upon which hogs furnished as much as 

 25 per cent of the total receipts. The results of investigations thus 

 far are not favorable to hogs as a major enterprise,- both labor 

 income and farm income on hog farms being greatly below the 

 averages for all farms of similar size. The enterprise has been 



