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the larger farms, but the advantage the smaller farms have in labor 
expense is nearly overcome by proportionately greater expenses for 
taxes, feed, and water. 
The distribution of expense on farms of different size is shown in 
Table XXVIII. 
Table XXYIII. — Distribution of expenses on farms of different sizes in the irrigated 
valleys of southern Arizona. 
Average 
size. 
Hired 
labor. 
Family 
labor." 
Thrash- 
ing and 
baling. 
Repairs 
on ma- 
chinery. 
Feed 
pur- 
chased. 
Taxes. 
Water. 
Miscel- 
laneous. 
Total. 
Acres. 
11 
$92 
S20 
S10 
6 
$140 
$38 
$18 
S58 
$382 
20 
13S 
21 
16 
8 
116 
61 
33 
88 
481 
30 
152 
39 
59 
9 
74 
91 
47 
86 
557 
40 
194 
70 
77 
16 
72 
95 
58 
76 
658 
62 
465 
115 
105 
16 
63 
129 
85 
67 
1,045 
80 
486 
81 
123 
16 
100 
148 
112 
135 
1,201 
101 
652 
161 
177 
21 
63 
194 
126 
63 
1,457 
137 
1,212 
140 
191 
40 
140 
243 
190 
229 
2,385 
160 
1,203 
211 
209 
44 
106 
281 
210 
97 
2,361 
244 
1,814 
177 
241 
63 
266 
382 
295 
308 
3,546 
530 
3,636 
US 
597 
148 
288 
842 
668 
1,123 
7,420 
While it has been shown that the smaller farms do not furnish as 
large a farm income as the larger farms, and do not pay as high wages 
to the operators, it is yet possible to make incomes of considerable 
size even on the small farms. This is shown in Table XXIX, which 
presents the maximum and minimum farm incomes made in each 
size group, and the percentage of farms in each group making a 
farm income of $1,500 or more. 
Table XXIX. — Maximum and minimum farm incomes made in the different size groups, 
and the percentage of farms in each group furnishing an income of $1,500 or more. 
Size-group, acres. 
Number 
of farms. 
Average 
area. 
Maxi- 
mum 
farm 
income. 
Minimum 
farm 
income. 
Percent- 
age of 
farms in 
group 
furnish- 
ing 
incomes 
of $1,500 
or more. 
Oto 19 
54 
45 
54 
84 
103 
, 5 
47 
39 
44 
50 
32 
Acres. 
11 
20 
30 
40 
.62 
80 
101 
137 
160 
244 
530 
$2, 621 
3.359 
3,876 
4,711 
5,492 
5,323 
4,692 
7,707 
9,062 
14,266 
24,215 
$151 
97 
69 
25 
347 
5 6 
20 
15.6 
21 to 39 
29.6 
40 
27.4 
41 tO 79 
fi9 1 
80 
88 74.7 
81 to 119 
723 80 9 
120 to 159 
s34 09- -3 
160 
860 
385 
3,386 
90 9 
161 to 320 
98.0 
Over 320 
100 
Since in all tables hitherto presented the results have been average 
results of all farms of a class, and therefore have been proportion- 
ally influenced by the poorer farms as well as the better ones, and 
since in all communities there are always a few farmers who fail, no 
matter what the circumstances may be, it will perhaps add to the 
