AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



certain field of Indian corn should be cultivated 

 one time more than the tenant cares to cultivate 

 it. The tenant may figure that his share of the 

 additions to the crop due to the extra cultivation, 

 will not remunerate him for the extra effort. In 

 a case of this kind, however, the fair minded 

 tenant should be willing to give as many cultiva- 

 tions to the crop as he would if he owned the land, 

 and this is all a fair minded landlord should ask. 

 Cash tenancy. 1 Cash tenancy is usually con- 

 sidered by economists as a step in advance of share 

 tenancy. "This method of putting out lands to 

 farm," says Turgot, 2 a French writer, whose 

 work was published in 1770, "is the most advan- 

 tageous of all, both to the proprietors and to the 

 cultivators; it establishes itself everywhere where 

 there are rich cultivators in a position to make the 

 advances of the cultivation; and as rich cultiva- 

 tors can provide the land with much more labor 

 and manure there results from it a prodigious in- 

 crease in the produce and revenue of estates. In 

 Picardy, Normandy, the neighborhood of Paris, 

 and in most of the provinces of the North of 

 France, the lands are cultivated by cash tenants. 

 In the provinces of the South they are cultivated 

 by share tenants; the provinces of the North of 



1 See Appendix D at the end of this chapter for copy of a 

 Wisconsin cash lease. 



3 Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of 

 Riches (Economic Classics, edited by W. J. Ashley), p. 24. 



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