CONTRACTS USED IN RENTING FARMS ON SHARES. 5 



farms where the landowner pays all expenses, including hired labor, 

 he receives two-thirds of the corn. The same fraction for division 

 of the corn is used on Ohio farms where the tenant receives a small 

 guaranteed wage in addition to one-third of the corn. Occasionally 

 in Virginia the tenant supplies three-fourths of the fertilizer on 

 corn land and receives three-fourths of the corn. Share croppers on 

 cotton farms, who furnish nothing but labor, commonly receive one- 

 half of the corn or pay cash rent for corn land, while share renters, 

 who furnish the working capital and the labor, usually get two- 

 thirds of the corn. In cases on Colorado farms where the tenant 

 supplies tools and horses and pays all expenses the landowner re- 

 ceives one-third of the corn. On general farms in Delaware the 

 landowner usually gets one-half of all crops, including corn. 



Wheat and other grain and seed crops. — The examination of 453 

 survey records 1 on tenant wheat farms in Kansas, Nebraska, Min- 

 nesota, North Dakota, and Montana shows that on 267 of these farms 

 the landowner receives one-third, on 106 farms one-half, and on 80 

 farms two-fifths of the wheat. On these farms the tenant supplied 

 working capital and hired labor. Occasionally other fractions, such 

 as two-sevenths or five-twelfths are used in dividing the wheat in 

 the wheat States of the upper Mississippi valley. Through the corn 

 belt the tenant usually pays one-half of the wheat and other grains 

 on share-rented farms. Very generally where several cereal grains 

 are raised on the same farm all of these grains are divided between 

 landlord and tenant by the same fraction, the lease prescribing that 

 the landowner shall receive either one-half or one-third of all grain. 

 The landowner's share of small cereal grains, as is the case with 

 many other crops, is smaller in western States than in the corn belt. 

 Frequently the landowner receives only one-third of the wheat and 

 other grain, especially when the tenant pays thrashing expenses, as 

 compared with one-half of the corn. Rye is commonly divided half 

 and half. In the cotton belt share croppers usually receive one-half 

 of the oats and share renters two-thirds. In Colorado the landowner 

 commonly receives one-third of the oats and less often one-half, 

 while in the corn belt and various other States the landowner 

 usually receives one-half of the oats or more rarely one-third or 

 two-fifths. On some New Jersey farms the landlord may pay. all 

 expenses and receive two-thirds of the oats and wheat, his share 

 otherwise being one-half. 



On rice farms in Texas when the tenant supplies tools and mules 

 and the landlord furnishes all seed and water, the landlord com- 

 monly receives either two-fifths or one-half of the rice, depending 

 upon the location and fertility of the farm. 



1 Records furnished for examination by courtesy of Office of Extension Work in the 

 North and West, States Relations Service. 



