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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



The methods of letting land on shares are so varied that a 

 brief description of the forms of share tenancy is essential to an 

 understanding of the subject. Share tenancies vary with 

 respect to : 



(a) The proportion of the product received by each party. 



(b) The equipment and supplies furnished by each party. 



(c) The degree of control exercised by each party. 



These characteristics of the share systems of operating land 

 will be described for the various parts of the United States 

 under a classification based on the share received by the land- 

 lord. The other characteristics will be discussed under sub- 

 headings. 



The one-fourth system. One-fourth the product as the land- 

 lord's share is the lowest share rent which has been found to exist 



Figure 18 



in an important way in the United States. This system was 

 found on the western edge of the wheat region of the Dakotas, 

 Nebraska, and Kansas, and also in Oregon and California in 

 the first decade of this century. In general it may be said that 

 the one-fourth system existed in the North only on relatively 



