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TATISTICIAN bic MemEDUG Ss (ane 
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‘he took too much time for amusement or idleness, entertained to 
much company, and ran in debt for subsistence. There were more 
‘industrious and wiser men among them who managed to accumulate 
something, and these, to secure greater independence and larger 
- savings, have bought land. It is the statement of many of our cor- | | 
-. respondents that the once universal system is far less popular, is — 
/ —— vapidly waning, and slowly becoming superseded by a return to the \ 
: wage system, or to a cash rent, or its equivalent in cotton, ata cer- 
_. tain number of pounds per acre, or a given amount, a bale, a bale- y 
and a half, and in best lands 2 bales, or 1,000 pounds of lint cotton,  — 
for a one-horse farm, say 30 or 35 acres of cotton land, in some cases 
including other lands for pasturage. SH AAAS 
~The share of the tenant who receives land only, and furnishes im- * 
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~ \ plements and supplies as well as labor, in the cotton States, is quite 
| generally three-fourths of the cotton and two-thirds of grainorother 
- products. Where the owner furnishes stock and implements, en- 
-_ tirely or partially, his share of the crop increases to one-half, and in | 
-—-- gome eases two-thirds. The range of allowance for land alonemay 
be stated at one-third to one-fifth for cotton, which is very exacting 
in its labor requirements, from seed to gin. spat 
a In some parts of South Carolina the laborer works four days for 
the use of a mule two days in cultivating his own crop. Thecharge «~ 
for rent of horse or mule rangés from $25 to $40, asreported. Where 
land is rented, from $1 to $3 per acre is the usual range, according. 
to quantity and productiveness; and the returns of lint cotton’as  _ 
_ rent of land is equally variable, from 500 to 1,000 pounds for a one- — 
- mule farm (say 35 acres), and in one instance 100 pounds per acre is |) 
reported, which appears to be an extremerent. Thetenantisusually 
allowed land for a garden, the privilege of taking fire-wood, and often _ 
pasturage for a cow or two or several hogs. ad, 
- The share of the tenant in West Virginia is one-half to two-thirds, «+ 
. according to value and capabilities of the farm, he providing the =~ 
stock and implements. Various forms of contract are made,in — | 
_.... which the owner furnishes more than the land and obtains a larger’ _- 
share of the products. : “Te 
; One-half to two-thirds is the’ ordinary rule in Kentucky; in some 
Ry eases one-half of the tobacco and two-thirds of the corn. Some cor- 
if respondents say one-half of the corn and two-fifths of the tobacco. _ 
_ °'. Insome counties half of the corn is taken by the tenant and two- | 
— ~.. thirds of the oats. af ew 
t.- In Ohio one-half to two-thirds is usually taken by the tenant. In _— 
& same cases one-half of the hay and two-thirds of the other crops is - 
| the rule. There are various modifications of the contract. A ten- 
ant who has house, garden, and pasture may receive only half, when 
ma he might obtain two-thirds if he had the land alone. .The Ottowa ~ 
‘> reporter says the most satisfactory plan is for the tenant to furnish .— 
| half the stock, half seed, and pay half the tax on personal property. 
and half the repairs,and divide equally the products. we 
~~~ In Indiana the farm is usually taken ‘“‘at the halves.” Sometimes °° - 
two-fifths or two-thirds is the custom. Where uplands are farmed. 
for two-thirds or three-fifths, bottom-landsg are sometimes taken at _— 
aS one-half. For labor alone the tenant gets one-third ; in best lands ~ 
by. one-fourth. Similar practice prevails in Illinois, the tenant receiv- — ~ 
ing one-half, two-fifths, and sometimes two-thirds, according to land) 
and requirements aside from labor. In Douglas County one-third ~~ 
of staal grain goes to the tenant and two-fifths of the Indian corn. 
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