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the other extreme a landlord made over 20 per cent when 

 the tenant made a labor income of only $142. A consid- 

 erable number of landlords made over 10 per cent when 

 the tenants made less than hired-man's wages. Most of 

 these were cases where the tenant spent most of his time 

 milking cows and raising potatoes for half. 



When the landlord pays for half the feed for productive 

 stock, half the seed, fertilizer, etc., and gets half the re- 

 ceipts, he really pays for part of the labor cost. He 

 furnishes the houses and half the milk and other prod- 

 ucts that are given to men. He furnishes the barn for 

 horses, and usually furnishes half the hay that horses 

 eat, so that he pays part of the cost of horse labor. And 

 since he furnishes part of the cost of man labor, he really 

 pays for part of the time that men spend on horses. Part 

 of the machinery cost falls to him because he furnishes 

 the barns to house machinery and part of the man and 

 horse labor to care for machinery. 



The cost of hay and apples for the farm from which 

 accounts are given on pages 445 to 471 was divided as 

 suggested above. By the usual system of rental in this 

 region the tenant and landlord share receipts equally. 

 But the hay crop would cost the landlord $220 more than 

 it cost the tenant, while the small orchard would cost the 

 tenant $60 more than it cost the landlord. 



If a farm is mostly devoted to hay, the tenant has the 

 best of the bargain. If it is mostly devoted to cows or 

 intensive crops, the landlord has the best of it. It would 

 be better if we had a more flexible system, so that the share 

 would vary with the kind of crops more than it does. 



209. Relation of systems of rental to profits. The 

 best form of rental for a tenant, who has money enough 

 and who is a good farmer, is cash rent. 



