UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 603 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 



Contribution from the Office of Farm Management 



W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



April 10, 1918 



A STUDY OF SHARE-RENTED DAIRY FARMS IN 

 GREEN COUNTY, WIS., AND KANE COUNTY, ILL. 



By E. A. Boeger, Agriculturist. 



CONTENTS. 



Systems of share-renting. 



Summary of results 



Regions studied 



Page. 

 2 

 3 



4 



Page. 

 Variation in duty of landlord and of tenant . . 6 



Factors of efficiency 8 



Relation of farm practices to profits 12 



The great increase in American dairy farming and the spread of 

 farm tenancy in dairy regions together tend to emphasize the need 

 for exact knowledge concerning the relation between landlord and 

 tenant on share-rented dairy farms. The work described in this 

 bulletin was undertaken in two representative dairy regions with a 

 view to ascertaining the nature of this relationship and determining 

 the profits made thereunder by landlord and tenant. 



ILLINOIS 



Fig. 1.— Location of areas in which records were taken. 

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