FARM ORGANIZATION" IN SOUTHERN ATtTZONA. 45 



engaged in dairying were beginners in the enterprise and had not yet 

 brought it to its highest degree of success. Ten farmers who depended 

 chiefly upon dairying for their receipts were very successful, obtaining 

 returns comparing favorably with returns from this enterprise on the 

 farms of the 80 acres, but five other farmers who attempted to com- 

 bine dairying with hay, hogs, or grain, were very unsuccessful. One 

 sheep farmer was also very unsuccessful, and two beef cattle farmers 

 were only moderately successful. The live stock organizations upon 

 these farms, therefore, produce average returns relatively much lower 

 than returns from organizations of this kind on the farms of 80 acres. 

 This difference is due to imperfection in the live stock organization 

 itself. The five diversified farms in the group are nearly as success- 

 ful as the 10 dairy farms, but they obtain an average of 29.4 per cent 

 of their receipts from dairying, this enterprise being in every case 

 much the strongest of the three or more enterprises found on these 

 farms. Results obtained with some of the more successful enter- 

 prises were as follows: Ten dairy farms, receipts, $4,124; farm 

 income, $2,855; labor income, $1,089. Five diversified farms, 

 receipts, $4,056; farm income, $2,479; labor income, $931. Two 

 alfalfa seed farms, receipts, $4,412; farm income, $3,024; labor 

 income, $1,297. Two cotton farms, receipts, $5,784; farm income, 

 $2,536; labor income, $927. Twenty farms devoted chiefly to hay, 

 grain, or pasture were comparatively unprofitable, their average 

 returns being: Receipts, $3,015; farm income, $1,713; labor income, 



On 39 farms ranging in size from 120 to 159 acres, enterprises were 

 found distributed as follows: Dairying, 11 farms; beef cattle and 

 dairy, 2; alfalfa seed, 1; hay, 6; hay and gram, 1; pasture, 3; 

 cotton, 3; cotton and hogs, 1; grain, 5; diversified, 6. Some of the 

 more satisfactory results obtained were as follows: Eleven dairy 

 farms produced averages of, receipts, $6,275; farm income, $3,821; 

 labor income, $1,602. Six diversified farms, receipts, $6,024; farm 

 income, $4,224; labor income, $1,722. One alfalfa seed farm, 

 receipts, $4,303; farm income, $2,825; labor income, $1,406. One 

 combination hogs and cotton farm, 1 receipts, $11,290; farm income, 

 $6,443; labor income, $4,235. 



Thirteen farms with a live stock organization, live stock contribu- 

 ting 83.4 per cent of the total receipts, produced average returns as 

 follows: Receipts, $6,034; farm income, $3,699; labor income, $1,410. 

 The corresponding results obtained on 20 farms organized on the 

 basis of sales of crops, upon which crops contributed 80 per cent of 

 the total receipts, were, receipts, $4,747; farm income, $2,473; labor 

 income, $473. 



1 The farmer in this case was engaged largely in the business of buying hogs, keeping them a short time 

 on his farm, and then selling them, rather than raising the hogs on his own farm. 



