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of very high land values in the North Central states. Under 

 this system the landlord receives one-third the grain and some- 

 times he receives all the straw and corn stalks and stands none 

 of the expense of production. 



The landlord receiving a third of the produce usually furnishes 

 no part of the operating equipment of the farm. In many 

 instances the tenant pays a cash rent for the house in which 

 he lives and for pasture for his live stock. In many other cases 

 fields only are rented for one-third the crop. The tenant lives 

 on the land which he may have bought or leased and takes two- 

 thirds the grain and leaves the roughage on the farm where 

 grown. Where the " third " system exists with respect to grain 

 crops, the hay crop is usually shared half and half. 



Where land is let for one-third the crop, the landlord usually 

 controls in detail the kind of crops to be grown on each field. 

 Beyond this he leaves the tenant to do much as he pleases. 



The two-fifths system. In the Corn Belt the two-fifths system 

 has been an intermediate stage in the rise of share rents from 



Figure 20 



one-third to one-half the crop. This system differs from the 

 " third" system primarily in the fact that the landlord receives 



