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Half and Half System, {Share Croppers). — Under this 

 system which is true share tenancy or metayage, the tenant 

 supplies the labor and one-half the fertilizers, when any 

 are used, while the landlord furnishes the land, a cabin, a 

 garden plot, all the tools, the work animals and their feed, 

 the seed, one-half of the fertilizers used, and the tenant's 

 fuel wood, which the tenant cuts from the nearest available 

 woodland, using the landlord's mules for hauling. Each 

 party, under this system receives half the crop, and each 

 pays for half the ginning, bagging, and ties. If, as happens 

 occassionally, another crop besides corn and cotton is grown, 

 it is also divided equally between landlord and tenant. Cow- 

 peas are frequently planted in the corn at the last cultiva- 

 tion with the seed usually furnished by the landlord. The 

 tenant is often allowed to pasture it if he has a cow or 

 other stock. T he landlor ds exercise car^fuL_sup.ervision 

 over the share x r n pp pr s w hr> are locally not considered as 

 tenants at all, but as labojersjiired to do the work in return 

 f or halt the crop an d the j ise_of_a^ cabin. 



Sometimes, under this system, the tenant pays cash for 

 the use of the land not planted in cotton and for the use 

 of the planter's equipment in working it. In such cases the 

 tenant receives all the crops raised in this manner. 2 



Share Renting System (Third and fourth share tenants). 

 — Under this system the tenant furnishes his own work 

 stock and feeds it, and also supplies tools, seeds, and all 

 labor, while the owner provides the land, the buildings and 

 the fuel. If fertilizers are used under this system, they 

 are paid for in the ratio of each party's share of the crop. 

 The tenant pays as rent a share of the crop, one-fourth in 

 some sections and one-third in others. The use of the land 



2 This latter arrangement is extremely rare in Georgia, as is 

 evidenced by the fact that the census of 1910 reported only 1,795 

 Negroes in the "Share-Cash" tenant class, i. e., just a trifle over 

 one per cent of all Negro farmers. 



