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al other times so low thai the farmers must draw upon the income 

 from other enterprises td pay the freight bilJs. The enterprise is 

 thus higlvly speculative, and, unless conditions should cliange radi- 

 e:ill\ . can never become of great importance in southern Arizona. 



The relative importance on the farms studied of the enterprises 

 thai have been described is shown further in Table XVII, which 

 presents the total receipts on 725 farms arising from each of the 

 various enterprises. 



Table XVII. — Distribution of receipts among the various enterprises on 725 irrigated 



/(inns in southern Arizona. 



Enterprise. 



Value of 



total 

 receipts. 



Dairying: 



Ncl sales of dairy cattle over pur- 



11 is 



Increase in dairy cattle 



Sales of butter and retail milk 



Sales of cream 



Total, dairying. 



Alfalfa hay. 

 Beef cattle. 



Ho: 



Poultry and poultry products. 

 Wheat 



S76,339 



a 273, 556 



76,987 



297,858 



72-1,740 



45S, S99 

 4 IS, 751 

 180,347 

 156, 951 

 162, 446 



Enterprise. 



Value of 



total 

 receipts. 



Cotton and cotton seed S146 



Alfalfa pasture 130. 



119! 



89! 



81' 



64. 



60'. 



53! 



22; 



is; 

 13: 

 11, 



Barley - 



Horses 



Grain sorghums 



Miscellaneous sources 



Fruit 



Alfalfa seed 



Sheep, goats, wool, and mohair . 



Cantaloupes 



Truck and watermelons 



Oats 



Corn 



Irish potatoes and beans 



S.S9 

 324 

 440 

 62S 

 081 

 229 

 726 

 335 

 805 

 279 

 651 

 106 

 171 

 015 



a This increase in value of dairy live stock is due to increase in numbers rather than t o increase in vail ic 

 of individual animals. 



THE ADAPTATION OF THE FARM ENTERPRISES TO THE SIZE OF THE 



FARM. 1 



In the group of 54 farms of 19 acres or under were 12 dairy farms, 

 1 poultry farms, 9 fruit farms, and 5 diversified farms. There 

 were 6 farms on which dairying was combined with some other 

 enterprise and 4 upon winch poultry was combined with some other 

 enterprise. The remaining 8 farms in the group were devoted to 

 various crop enterprises. Dairy, poultry, and fruit, and their vari- 

 ous combinations, give much better results on these farms than other 

 enterprises including diversified farming. The average receipts, 

 farm income, and labor income of the 41 farms devoted to these 

 three enterprises were $1,185, $760, and $313, respectively, while 

 the corresponding figures for the 13 other farms were: Receipts, 

 $700; farm income, $516; labor income, $120. 



Among the 45 farms of 20 acres there were 15 dairy farms, 4 

 poultry farms, 4 farms that combined poultry with dairying, 2 fruit 

 farms, 3 truck farms, 5 hay farms, 2 farms upon which hay and grain 

 were combined, 7 diversified farms, and 3 beginners with enter- 

 prises not thoroughly established. The dairy and poultry organiza- 

 tion produced average resulis on the 23 farms as follows: Receipts, 



1 See Table XXI for classification of farms according to size. 



