FARM ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA. 35 



invested, and the 3 or more leading enterprises contributing at least 

 60 per cent of the total receipts. Nearly all of these farms have but 3 

 leading enterprises. A few have 4 and a very small number have 

 as many as 5. Alfalfa is the basis of their system; the sale of hay 

 contributes more than 15 per cent of the total receipts on 59 out of 

 109 diversified farms, while pasture and alfalfei seed contribute more 

 than 15 per cent of the receipts on 9 more of the farms in this class. 

 Dairying contributes more than 15 per cent of the total receipts on 

 62 of the farms, and poultry on 35. • The average percentage of 

 receipts contributed by these 3 enterprises on the 109 farms is as 

 follows: Dairying, 22.3 per cent; alfalfa hay, seed, and pasture, 20.5 

 per cent; poultry, 11.9 per cent. Grain contributes more than 15 

 per cent of the receipts on 33 farms, hogs on 15 farms, cotton on 16 

 farms, horses on 14 farms, cantaloupes on 9 farms, fruit on 9 farms, 

 truck on 4 farms, beef cattle on 8 farms, and bees on 7 farms. 



Grain contributes an average of 9.9 per cent of the total receipts on 

 the 109 farms, hogs, 7.5 per cent; horses, 5.3 per cent; cotton, 4.5 

 per cent; beef cattle, 4.3 per cent, and fruit, 4.2 per cent. 



Haying occurred combined with poultry and some other enterprise 

 on 22 farms, with dairying and some other enterprise on 24 farms, 

 with beef cattle and some other enterprise on 7 farms and with various 

 other enterprises on 8 farms. Poultry occurred combined with dairy- 

 ing and some other enterprise on 42 farms, and dairying occurred com- 

 bined with poultry on 42 farms, with hay on 24 farms and with various 

 other enterprises on 5 farms, making out of 109 diversified farms a 

 total of 71 upon which dairying was a prominent enterprise. 



The average size of the 109 farms is 88 acres, and the average re- 

 sults obtained were: Receipts, $3,362; farm income, $1,985; labor 

 income, $515. These results are far below those obtained on 178 

 farms, averaging 83 acres, where dairying was the chief source of 

 receipts, contributing 67.7 per cent of the total. (See Table XI.) 



POULTRY. 



Records were obtained on 32 farms upon which poultry furnished 

 the greater part of the farm receipts, but since many of the operators 

 were engaged in outside enterprises not connected with the farm, only 

 21 of the records were used for this study. These 21 farms averaged 

 27 acres in size and obtained 71.7 per cent of their total receipts from 

 poultry. In addition, two farmers combined poultry with hay and 

 two with fruit, each making poultry dominant over the other enter- 

 prise. While poultry is a favorite enterprise on the small farms (see 

 fig. 10) it is by no means confined to them, being a minor enterprise 

 of considerable importance on nearly all farms and frequently assum- 

 ing considerable magnitude on the larger farms, receipts of over $2,500 

 from poultry having been found on one farm in each of the groups 

 averaging 80 acres, 100 acres, 160 acres, and 530 acres. It has 



