Table 5. Number of Farmers "Renting" Land for Various Uses in the 



Town of Derry, 1949* 



Total number of farmers contacted 30 



Number of farmers using others' land in some manner 21 



Number of farmers buying standing hay 14 

 Number of farmers using rented land for all purposes 



other than buying standing hay 15 



Number of farmers renting hay land 7 



Number of farmers renting land for cultivated crops 5 



Number of farmers renting pasture 8 



Number of farmers operating on or from a rented farm 



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

 one case was found. 



ranged up to 120 acres, but half of them were 10 acres or less, and prob- 

 ably the laiger pieces were in more than one field. Distances from the renters' 

 farmsteads were obtained for seventeen pieces. Most of these were from 

 one to two and from four to five miles distant, although one was 14 miles 

 away. Not only was buying standing hay more common in Derry than in 

 Walpole, but some farmers rented more pieces and some went farther to 

 get it. 



Slightly less than one-fourth (7 of 30) of the Derry farmers rented 

 hay land, about the same proportion as in Walpole (11 of 44) . Most farmers 

 rented only one piece and none rented more than two. The size of these 

 pieces ranged from less than 5 to 25 acres, but most were of from 6 to 20 

 acres. Most pieces of rented hay land were less than two miles from the 

 renter's farmstead. Derry farmer? renting hay land rented somewhat fewer 

 pieces per farmer, somewhat smaller pieces, and traveled somewhat shorter 

 distances to their rented pieces as compared with Walpole farmers. This is 

 another indication that tillable rented land tends to be used less intensively 

 in Derry. 



Table 6. Number of Places "Rented" per Farmer, Town of Derry, 1949 



Number of Places '"Rented" per Farmer 



Kind of land used 0123456789 10 "Some' 



Number of Farmers Using Above Number of Places 



3 1 3 



A little more, than one-fourth (8 of 30) of Derry farmers reported 

 renting pasture as compared to nearly one-half in Walpole. Most farmers 

 in Derry, as in Walpole, rented only one place for pasture. Of the pieces 

 whose sizes were given, none were under 26 acres in Derry whereas 11 of 

 the 20 in Walpole were under 26 acres. Six of the nine pastures whose dis- 

 tances were reported were more than 10 miles away. So in Derry fewer 



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