CHAPTER 11 

 RENTING DAIRY FARMS 



G. F. WARREN 



213. Cash Rent. When cash rent is paid, the tenant usu- 

 ally furnishes everything but the land. The landlord then 

 has little to do with the farm. In some regions the land- 

 lord furnishes the cows and rents the farm and cows. 



214. Share of Crops. In regions where grain or cotton 

 is the major product, the landlord usually receives a share 

 of the crop. If cows are kept, the landlord has no share in 

 them. Only rarely does a good dairy farm develop under 

 these conditions. The landlord is not likely to provide 

 suitable buildings. The tenant justly feels that the manure 

 produced by the cows he feeds increases the yield of the 

 landlord's land with no expense to the landlord. 



215. Share of Receipts. In the older states the almost 

 universal system of sharing the products on rented dairy 

 farms is for each party to receive half of the receipts from 

 all products of the farm. The landlord furnishes the land 

 and does any extensive repairing of buildings. For small 

 repairs to buildings and fences he usually furnishes materials, 

 and the tenant does the work. He usually pays the taxes, 

 pays half the seed, feed, fertilizer, threshing, silo filling, 

 hay pressing, and similar bills ; and furnishes half or more 

 of the cattle and other stock from which he shares the in- 

 come. 



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