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Negro Migration 



rapid. The white share tenants increased only 34 per cent, 

 the cash tenants 33 per cent and the owners 6 per cent. 

 The white cash tenants increased almost as rapidly as 

 share tenants because of the tendencies mentioned above 

 for the white tenants to be more desirous of the stable form 

 of tenure, and to have the capital to set themselves up as 

 renters. Landlords are also more willing to permit their 

 land to be cultivated by white cash tenants, without super- 

 vision, than They areTto permit this form of cultivation by 

 Negro tenants. Nothin g short ot a revolutiona ry increase 

 in the efficiency of~tEe Negro as a farmer will change this 

 unwillingnes s, of the majority of resident landl ords to aban- 

 do n share farming although there are disadv antages both to 

 the landlord and to th e tenant in this unstable ,, form of ten- 

 ureTTn^share tenancy, many landlords prefer Negro ten- 



ants since they are more tractable and amenable to super- 

 vision, and since, in cases where the landlord combines mer- 

 chandising with cropping, greater profit is made from Ne- 

 groes because they spend their earnings more freely than do 

 the white tenants. 7 



The following percentages worked out by Brooks (p. 



TABLE 8. 



Percentage of all Farms Operated by Owners, Cash and Share 



Tenants. 



(a) Includes Coast Counties, tabulated separately by Brooks. 

 7 Brooks, R. P., Agrarian Revolution. Opp. cite., p. 98. 



