TENANCY AND L AND O WN ERSH I P 



common, therefore, where the landlord and the 

 tenant are acquainted with each other, for ten- 

 ancies of this kind to be entered upon for three, or 

 five year periods, with the understanding that the 

 tenant is to remain for a much longer period if 

 satisfactory to both parties. 



Where land is let for a share of the crop there 

 are so many details which must be agreed upon by 

 both parties, that troublesome differences of opin- 

 ion are likely to arise. It is quite generally 

 agreed among those concerned, however, that 

 where difficulties arise between landlords and ten- 

 ants, it is usually due to the fact that one or both 

 of the parties is too grasping. A grasping land- 

 lord drives the tenant to use dishonest means in 

 order to make both ends meet. The landlord 

 who is willing to give his tenants a fair chance, 

 and then insists on good farming and honest busi- 

 ness, and discharges every tenant at once who is 

 very inefficient and not strictly honest, will have 

 little trouble with his tenants. 



Time and again, landlords have said to the 

 writer that if both parties would observe the 

 golden rule there would be no occasion for trouble 

 between landlords and tenants. There is occa- 

 sion, very often, for the use of the golden rule in 

 the relations between the share tenant and his 

 landlord. This is true because of the close rela- 

 tions into which they are thrown in the manage- 

 ment of the farm. The landlord may think that a 

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