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QUESTIONS AND PROBLEMS 



1. What are the usual systems of renting in your region? 



2. Do the systems of rental encourage the keeping of stock? 

 Do tenant farms have as much stock as farms operated by owners ? 



3. Make a list of all the persons you can find who have re- 

 cently changed from hired man to tenant. On the average how 

 many years did they spend as hired men? 



4. Make a list of as many persons as possible who have changed 

 from tenant to owner in the past few years. On the average how 

 many years have they been tenants ? 



5. Write a lease that seems to you to be fair to both parties and 

 that gives a reasonable consideration to maintenance of the fertility 

 of the land. 



COLLATERAL READING 



Farm Management, G. F. Warren, pp. 321-329. 

 Cyclopedia of Agriculture, L. H. Bailey, Vol. IV, pp. 170-185. 

 Farm Leases in Iowa, Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Bulletin 159. 



