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<br />" <br /> <br />o ~.1884 <br /> <br />3. Baca Joint Tract (Baca Joint Ditch on.4r) <br />4. Hoehne Tract, compriSed of eight ditches as follows: <br />Hoehne, John's Flood, CbUUi, Victor Florez, <br />El Mora, Burns and Duncan, lewelling and <br />McCormick, and Salas. <br /> <br />Farm budgets representing both the "without" and "with" project <br />conditions were prepared for representative farms. The difference in <br />income computed from the "without" and "with" budgets was the basis for <br />deriving the ~nt capacity of the lands and the irrigation benefits. <br /> <br />''Without'' the project the existing tYJlE! of agriculture and current <br />organization of individual farms will probably continue into the future <br />basically unchanged. Therefore, the economic analyses representing future <br />"without" conditions are based on the size and organization of the farms and <br />the type of farming being currently practiced in the area. <br /> <br />Regulation of the water supply will effect significant improvements <br />in the agriculture of the area. It ia anticipated that the same general <br />crops will continue to be grown whether or not the project is constructed. <br />However, a greater and more dependable water supply will enable the farmers <br />to intensifY production inputs involving such items as increased use of <br />fertilizers, herbicides, and improved crop varieties. Greater and wider <br />use of these factors of production will result in increased flow of econOlllic, <br />goods to and from the project area. <br /> <br />The farm budgets for the "without" project conditions are based on data <br />obtained by the Bureau in the field from interviews with local farmers in <br />the Trinidad area. These "without" budgets reflect the greater existing <br />income on farms with good water rights and the poorer incomes presently <br />available from farms with less productive water rights. <br /> <br />The payment capacity for the four economic tracts with the project <br />were first determined for a full water supply and tben adjusted downward <br />to the water supply available to each ditch. <br /> <br />Yields for crops grown with and without the project are given in <br />Table 12. <br /> <br />Livestock prOduction was included in the farm budgets. A summary <br />of the "without" farm budgets is given in Table 14 and of the "with" <br />budgets in Tables 15, 16, 17, and 18. <br /> <br />Through some repairs are needed the present ditch systems are considered <br />reasonably adequate for delivery of water with the project. A cost of $4 <br />per acre per year for Operation and Maintenance of the ditch systems was <br />allowed in the farm budget.s and is cODsidel'ed adequate for maintenance <br />and repairs. <br /> <br />11 <br />