THE YOUNG FARMER 



ter. It is obvious that if he remains on the 

 farm long enough the tenant will come into 

 his share of the benefit, while if he intends 

 to leave the farm soon he may not. There 

 is in the mind of the writer a pros- 

 perous tenant who, after eighteen years 

 on a single farm, declared he had no desire 

 to make a change, and doubtless there are 

 thousands of similar instances. 



Under the plan in which the tenant fur- 

 nishes everything except the real estate, the 

 tendency of the farm is apt to be downward 

 both as to the improvements and the crop- 

 producing power of the soil. The interests 

 of the landlord and tenant are not mutual. 

 This condition of tenancy leads to growing 

 only those crops which can be readily sold 

 from the farm and to frequent changes of 

 the tenant, with its accompanying auction 

 sales of property. In one region, where 

 this system prevails, it has been facetiously 

 remarked that each tenant has a sale every 

 year to determine how much he is worth. 

 It is less trouble than taking an inventory. 



In the second form of share rent, the in- 



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