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BULLETIN f>03, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



for each colt. The receipts from sales of all farm products are 

 divided half and half, excepting sometimes those from fowls, which 

 frequently are owned in a limited number exclusively by the tenant. 

 All stock is fed from grain and hay owned in common. 



Dairying in this region is of the intensive type. As will be seen 

 later, few cows are raised and the calves usually are sold almost as 

 soon as the mother's milk is marketable. 



Fifty-nine records were taken in the region about Elgin, mostly 

 in Kane County, for the crop year- 1915. The data thus procured 

 will be discussed in these pages, and reference will be made also to 

 the data secured from 117 share-rented farms for the crop year 

 1912 by the Illinois Agricultural College, and loaned to the Federal 

 department for use in this connection. 



Figure 1 shows the locations in which these records were taken. 



VARIATION IN DUTY OF LANDLORD AND OF TENANT. 



Considerable variation was encountered in the duty of landlord 

 and of tenant under the terms of the various contracts found in 

 vogue ( see Table I ) . 



Table I. — Items furnished by landlord and bij tenant on 1>i3 half-share rented 

 dairy farms in Wisconsin and Illinois. 



[Figures show number of farms on which each specified item was furnished.] 



Item. 



Green 



County, Wis. (84 

 farm's). 



Kane County, 111. (59 farms). 



By 

 landlord. 



By 



tenant. 



Half and 

 half. 



By 

 landlord. 



By 



tenant. 



Half and 

 half. 





1 

 3 

 3 

 51 

 31 



67 

 70 



16 

 11 



81 

 32 

 2 

 65 

 69 

 55 

 10 





59 



56 





Machinery 



3 





49 

 26 

 59 

 3 



10 



Grass seed 



1 



51 

 19 

 15 

 25 



72 





33 









Twine 



2 



2 



21 



13 



54 



Thrashing 





57 



Chickens 



4 

 2 



1 

 3 



34 



Milk cans ' 



37 







1 On the other 6 farms in the Illinois region the milk cans were furnished by the milk buyer. 



It will be noted from the table that on the farms of the Wisconsin 

 group the horses are owned mostly by the tenants and on those of 

 the Illinois group they are all owned by the tenants. Likewise, the 

 implements and machinery are owned mostly by the tenant, but to 

 a greater extent on the farms of the Illinois group than those of the 

 Wisconsin group. 



The greatest variation in the division of expenses is in regard to 

 cows and the payment of the farm road tax. In the Wisconsin 

 group only three of the landlords own cows, and they are owned 

 half-and-half on 81 farms, while in the Illinois group they are owned 

 by the landlord on 49 farms and half-and-half on only 10 farms. As 



