FARM ORGANIZATION IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA. 
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Reclamation Record (vol. 8, No. 2, p. 58), United States Reclamation 
Service: 
Table III. — Crop report, Salt River project, Arizona, year ending Nov. SO, 1916. 
Area 
(acres). 
Unit of 
yield. 
Yields. 
\ :illics. 
Crop. 
Total. 
Average 
per acre. 
Per imii 
Of yield. 
Total. 
Alfalfa 
81,616 
2,739 
13,295 
710 
1,584 
55 
2,080 
984 
28,589 
5,477 
556 
1,259 
1,248 
490 
623 
6,061 
1,425 
427 
52,822 
351 
• 102 
262 
10,081 
Ton 
Bushel 
...do 
...do 
Pound 
Ton 
...do 
Bushel 
Ton 
Pound 
...do 
...do 
...do 
...do 
326, 464 
10,956 
332,375 
14,200 
7,920,000 
27.5 
16,640 
34,440 
35, 736 
1,916,950 
194, 600 
2,518,000 
4,992.000 
980, 000 
4 
4 
25 
20 
5,000 
i 
8 
35 
11 
350 
350 
2,000 
4,000 
2,000 
S12. 00 
7.20 
1.05 
3. 60 
.03 
125. 00 
5.00 
1.00 
30. 50 
.35 
.17 
.05 
.025 
.06 
$3,917,568 
78,883 
348,994 
51,120 
237,600 
3,438 
83.2(H) 
34, 1H) 
1,089,948 
670,932 
33 082 
Alfalfa seed 
Beans 
Cantaloupe 
Corn, broom 
Corn fodder 
Corn, Indian 
Corn, sorghum 
Cotton, long staple 
Cotton, short staple ..... 
Fruits, citrus 
125 900 
Fruits, deciduous 
124 son 
Fruits, small 
58 800 
Garden 
62,300 
145 464 
Eav , grain 
Ton 
Bushel 
Pound. . . . 
12, 122 
57, 000 
512,400 
2 
40 
1,200 
12. 00 
.50 
.05 
Oats 
28 500 
Olives 
25 620 
Pasture 
950 796 
Potatoes, common 
Bushel 
...do 
Ton 
Bushel 
21,060 
7, 650 
3,144 
252, 025 
60 
75 
12 
25 
1.50 
1.50 
10.00 
1.15 
31 590 
Potatoes, sweet 
11,475 
Watermelons 
31 440 
Wheat : 
289 829 
Total 
212,836 
39, 477 
Less duplicated areas 
Total cropped acreage 
173,359 
8,435,719 
A large sugar-beet factory is located at Glendale, but the yields of 
beets were so unsatisfactory that after a trial of two years the farmers 
refused to grow them. The owners of the factory control several 
thousand acres of land in the valley, and are now planting sugar cane 
in the hope that this crop may be grown more profitably than sugar 
beets. It is too early to predict the result of this experiment. 
Milk, butter, eggs, poultry, dairy products, live stock, beef cattle, and 
hogs are the chief products of animal industry in the valley. The 
abundance and high yields of forage, owing chiefly to the thriving 
fields of alfalfa (see fig. 3), make the valley peculiarly adapted to 
animal industry. 
Markets are poorly developed and largely local in character. 
Freight and express rates are high, making it costly to ship products 
to any great distance. Cantaloupes and oranges are shipped to 
eastern markets. Beef cattle are shipped to the Pacific coast, finding 
their principal market in Los Angeles. Occasionally they are shipped 
to Kansas City. Local creameries buy milk and cream and sell butter 
and condensed milk on the local markets and in Arizona and New 
Mexico mining towns. Hay is sold to local feeders and also shipped 
to El Paso, Tucson, Bisbee, Douglas, Globe, Prescott, and other 
mining towns in Arizona and northern Mexico. It seldom goes 
