The Life of the Tenant Classes 71 



in corn is sometimes paid for in cash and the tenant then 

 retains all the crop. Each party to this agreeemnt pays for 

 ginning and bagging his part of the cotton. The landlord 

 is interested in the crop and oversees the tenant's opera- 

 tions, but is not so much concerned about the economical 

 use of mules and machinery, since they belong to the tenant. 



Cash Renting System. — This system is similar to the share 

 renting system r except that v in lieu of a sh are of the crop 

 the, t enant p ays a fixe d rent per acre in cash or li nt cotton. 

 Since the cotton is sold through the planter, he is sure of 

 hi s rent, provided a crop is raised, but sinc e he cannot col- 

 l ect the , rent if there is no crop, and since^also ti heTenant 

 is jjsually indebted to him for supplies advance d, the land- 

 lo rd exercises supervision over the cash renters, ex cept in 

 t he case of renters whom he knows to be dep endable. 3 



•This statement of supervision applies only to cash renters 

 on plantations of resident landlords-. In the case of absentee 

 landlords, so prevalent, there is no supervision oTer the renters. 



The following table summarizes in convenient form the 

 principal terms of the three systems of tenure : 



