The Life of the Tenant Classes 75 



Balanced against these differences in income are the facts 

 that in the case of third and fourth tenants and renters the 

 landlord not only furnishes less capital, but assumes a 

 smaller risk than in the case of the share tenant. 



Nevertheless, it is comparatively easy to understand, from 

 this point of view, why, in practical ly all cases where land- 

 lords can give personal supervision to their planting opera- 

 tions,^th~ey de sire to~ luiiliiiue li re share cropping system as 

 lon g as pos sible. On the other hand it is equally as^easy 

 to "understand the natu ral desire of the ambitious tenants 

 who have s aved a little money, to "get up in the world" 

 hy chancing the greater gains of third and touruT cropping 

 a nd renting, even at the risk of a great er loss. 3 



It is evident that several factors other than the propor- 

 tion in which the shares are divided, determine this fluctu- 

 ation of income. Figures indicating the relative efficiency 

 in production and extent of the usage of land, animals and 

 implements by the various Negro tenant classes were pub- 

 lished for the first time from the census of 1910 8 by 

 counties. 



Unfortunately the half share and the third and fourth 

 share tenants are all classed as "Share" tenants by the 

 census, and as the following discussion of the factors of 

 production is based on the census, the term "share tenant," 

 as used, in the remainder of the chapter includes both these 

 classes. Brooks found, from examination of the plantation 

 schedules of the Census of 1911, that this third and fourth 

 share system is largely confined to the Upper Piedmont 

 section. A considerable number of these tenants were scat- 

 tered throughout the State, however, in 1910. Hill®fo_und / 

 th roughout the - State, how ege f, in 1910. — ffiHl^Jrouid^^- 

 that 37.8 per cent of the Negroes of Clarke County, which 



« Negro Population, 1790-1915, U. S. Census, 1918, Table 73. 

 9 Hill, W. B., The Negroes of Clarke County, Georgia, Bulle- 

 tin University of Georgia, 1914. Vol. 15, No. 3, p. 19. 



