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for hay and pasture. The exacting of a cash rent for hay and 

 pasture land often accompanies the share system in the North 

 Central states, where the landlord receives one-third or two- 

 fifths, as well as where he receives one-half of crop. In the 

 South, corn land is sometimes let for cash, while cotton land is 

 let on shares. In central Illinois, the landlord sometimes 

 demands half the grain and one dollar per acre in addition, and 

 it is the regular thing to require that the tenant deliver the 

 landlord's share of the grain at the nearest market at such time 

 as the landlord may desire to dispose of his share of the product. 

 It is in the heart of the Corn Belt of central Illinois that the land- 

 lords are able to make the heaviest demands upon their tenants. 

 In eastern Ohio, in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and some adjoin- 

 ing territory where wheat has long been considered central in the 



COUNTIES WHERE THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT 

 THE PROPORTION OF THE PRODUCT 

 RECEIVED 3T THE UNOi-OSDS HAD 

 INCREASED PRIOR TO 1905 



Figure 22 



farming system, the landlord who receives one-half the grain 

 usually lets the tenant have the use of the buildings, the hay and 

 pasture land and all the straw he cares to feed on the farm, 

 without any additional compensation. This custom is held 

 to rather tenaciously and in one instance the writer found a 

 tenant who was making about one hundred dollars a month 



