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tenants than for share tenants. The average values for the 

 State as a whole are, owner farms, $66. Cash tenant farms, 

 $44. Share tenant farms, $23. These figures are, to some 

 extent, deceptive, in that the implements enumerated as "on 

 the share tenant's farm" do not include all the implements 

 which he may use during the year. In other words, the 

 plantation, on which the share tenant farm is located, is a 

 unit. These units differ in degree of organization, but the 

 most efficient plantations are highly organized. On these 

 plantations the expensive implements such as two horse cul- 

 tivators and disc harrows are not furnished for each tenant, 

 but are held by the landlord and apportioned out to the 

 tenants as needed. Cash tenants on large plantations some- 

 times have the same advantage of borrowing or renting 

 the landlord's specialized equipment for short periods, but 

 cash tenants on absentee landlord's places, or colored own- 

 ers on their own farms must, of necessity, purchase prac- 

 tically all the implements and machinery they use. This 

 renders a group of share tenant farms on an organized 

 plantation distinctly more efficient in the use of implements 

 and machinery. 



WORK ANIMALS. 



Figures showing the number of work animals per farm 

 indicate that the same factors determine the possession and 

 use of work animals that determine the possession and use 

 of implements. The average for work horses and mules per 

 Negro farm for the State as a whole was : for share tenant 

 farms, .8, for cash tenant farms, 1.3, and for owner farms, 

 1.4. 12 



Owners and cash tenants have more animals per farm 

 because their independent position renders the possession of 

 at least one animal almost necessary. On plantations, how- 

 ever, the landlord can control the use of animals from a 

 central barn, apportioning them out to the labor and share 

 tenant crops as they are needed. 

 12 Negro Population in the U. S. Opp. cite., Table 73. 



