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enterprise. Fluctuating prices of both range steers and fat cattle 
introduce a greater element of speculation than is found in the dairy 
enterprise, and the. capital required is greater; but on the whole tin- 
enterprise compares very favorably with dairying. Thirty farmers 
out of the 627 interviewed for these studies made the fattening of beef 
cattle a leading enterprise, obtaining on the average 61.5 per cent 
Fig. 9.— Fattening steers on alfalfa pasture. 
of their total receipts from this source; and 10 others combined the 
beef-cattle enterprise with some other enterprise in about equal 
proportions, obtaining over 80 per cent of their total receipts from 
the two enterprises. Results that were obtained in beef-ca1>tle 
farming are shown in Table XIV. 
Table XIV. — Results obtained in beef cattle farming in the irrigated valleys of southern 
Arizona, 1913-1915. 
Type of farming and percentage of receipts 
from principal enterprises. 
Number 
of farms. 
Beef cattle, 61.5 
Crops, 17.6 
Beef cattle, 41.7 
Grain, 34.2 
30 
Average 
area. 
Acres. 
298 
370 
Number 
failing to 
make 8 
per cent. 
Average 
receipts. 
$11,101 
12,211 
Average 
farm 
income. 
Average 
labor 
income. 
$7, 155 
5,295 
82, 146 
1,505 
HOG FARMING. 
Six farmers out of 627 made hog raising a major enterprise, obtain- 
ing an average of 50.6 per cent of their total receipts from this source. 
There were only 31 farms upon which hogs furnished as much as 
25 per cent of the total receipts. The results of investigations thus 
far are not favorable to hogs as a major enterprise, both labor 
income and farm income on hog farms being greatly below the 
averages for all farms of similar size. The enterprise has been 
