Appendix 



Renting Practices and Terms in 

 the Towns of Walpole and Derry 



Extent and Nature of Current Renting in the Town of Walpole 



Iorty-four, nearly all. of the active farmers were contacted. Twenty- 

 eight, well over half, of them were making some use of land owned 

 by other persons. It was not uncommon for a farmer to be using several 

 separate places and to be using places for several purposes. Some individual 

 places were used for a single purpose while others were used for two or 

 more. Among the 28 farmers using others' land, 20 were renting pasture. 

 ] 1 were renting hay land, four were buying standing hay, three were rent- 

 ing for cultivated crops, and two were operating rented farms as their com- 

 plete or principal farm units. 



Table 1. Number of Farmers "Renting" Land for Various Uses in the 

 Town of Walpole, 1949* 



Total number of farmers contacted 44 



Number of farmers using others' land in some manner 28 



Number of farmers buying standing hay 4 

 Number of farmers using rented land for all purposes 



other than buying standing hay 27 



Number of farmers renting hay land 11 



Number of farmers renting land for cultivated crops 3f 



Number of farmers renting pasture 20 



Number of farmers operating on or from a rented farm 2+ 



*Does not include operation of farms by hired managers or caretakers of which 

 there were five cases. 



fGrain, silage corn, and vegetables were the crops. 



JThe hay, pasture, and crop land of the "home" rented farm of these two farmers 

 is not included in the figures for farmers renting land for hay, pasture, and crops. 



The lines of movement by renters run from the active farms mostly 

 in the western and southwestern parts to the small nonfarm places in the 

 midst of the farming areas, to somewhat larger nonfarmer owned places 

 on the outer fringe of the farming areas, and into the predominantly non- 

 farming area with its sprinkling of abandoned farms. Pastures are rented 

 principally for young stock. They may be on any nonfarmer owned land, 

 but many of them are far up in the hills on the remaining open land of 

 otherwise long abandoned farms. Most farmers rented only one place for 

 pasture, but two farmers each rented three places. The size of rented pas- 

 tures ranged from less than five to 200 acres. Seven of the 24 whose acreages 

 were obtained contained over 50 acres each. Many of these pastures appar- 

 ently had very low carrying power. Those with more than 10 acres were 

 pastured at the rate of one animal on from three to 12.5 acres. Over half 

 of the places pastured were within a mile of the renter's farmstead, but five 

 were more than four miles away and one. was 35 miles away. 



Only about half as many farmers rented hay land as rented pasture. 

 Most of these rented only one piece, but three farmers rented three pieces 



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