386 AGRICULTURAL, APPROPRIATION BILL, 1924. 



Mr. AxDERSox. I did not mean particularly this land valuation 

 item but this item of farm management. 



Doctor Taylor. Yes; because whether or not you are goin^ to 

 operate a farm for profit depends upon buying the land at a right 

 price and being able to borrow money on it up to a fair valuation. 



STUDY OF RELATION BETWEEN LANDLORD AND TENANT. 



Another problem that is beino; covered in this section of land 

 economics is the question of the relation between landlord and tenant. 

 Since two-fifths of the farms of the United States are operated by 

 tenants this becomes a very important matter, because tne relation 

 between landlord and tenant has much to do with the type of farming 

 and what the tenant is free to do in the management of his farm. 



Mr. BucHAXAX. Do you mean you are making a study to ascertain 

 what that relation is ? 



Doctor Taylor. Yes; and the relations w^hich are successful and 

 lead to good agriculture as well as the relations which tend to retard 

 good farm management. 



Mr. BucHAXAX. Then you propose to publish a bulletin on that ? 



Doctor Taylor. Yes; a bulletin has just recently been published 

 on the relation between landlords and tenants in the black prairie of 

 Texas. 



Mr. BucHAXAX. Does that bulletin state what the proper relation 

 should be, in the opinion of the department? 



Doctor Tay'lor. It shows the relations which are proving successful 

 and profitable. 



Mr. BucnAXAX. Have you found a general class of relations that 

 are successful ? 



])octor Taylor. Well, of course, there is more than one factor. 

 It is a proper form of contract along with good people that makes the 

 success. 



Mr. BuciiAXAN. Have you found, in the relations between landlord 

 and tenant, where a good tenant is not successful all the time i 



Doctor Taylor. There are certain methods of renting land that 

 discourage good tenants, so that a good tenant will tend to disappear 

 or go some place else if the methods are not proper. So you usually 

 find the good tenants and the good methods of renting going together. 



Mr, BucHAXAX. What I want to get at is this: What general 

 service is rendered by this investigation ? Do you hope to change 

 certain of the relations between landlord and tenant that have hereto- 

 fore existed, or what? 



Doctor Taylor. To give the best possible information to those 

 who make in(|uiry and are studying the problem of improving the 

 relations between landlord and tenant. Hundreds of people are 

 continiinlly asking (Hicstions on this subject, and what wo are dcung 

 is biinging togetlier tlie information which is useful to those who are 

 wanting to improve coiuhtions. Where there is a good system of 

 tenancy there is a better chance that the tenants will be able to rise 

 to the position of land owning farmei-s in the coui-se of tinu\ 



Mr. liiciiANA.N. I fear it will be a long time. 



Doctor Taylor. Of coui-se, in the Soutli it takes a good deal longer 

 with one class of population than it does with another. . 





