FARM ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA. 45 
engaged in dairying wore beginners in the enterprise and had no1 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 
wer^ 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, 12,855; 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, 
$130. 
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 grain, 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. 
