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are not, as a rule, so well kept up as farms which are let on 

 shares. This is due in part to the fact that the owner is more 

 interested in keeping up the buildings and fences on the farm 

 where his income depends directly upon the annual value of the 

 products, but where land is let for one year at a time, the cash 

 tenant is interested in securing the largest possible profit for 

 that one year, without regard to the condition in which the land 

 may be left. Cash tenants have too commonly neglected to 

 sow clover seed, to produce and spread large quantities of ma- 

 nure upon the farm, and to destroy noxious weeds. 



The demand is for a system of renting land which will avoid 

 the evils of soil robbery without the evils of too great restriction. 



