BULLETIN 850, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 Table III. — Comparative methods of renting hay lands. 





Tenants 



getting 



free hay 



land. 



Tenants 

 paying 

 cash for 

 hay land. 



Tenants 

 having 

 no hay 

 land. 



Tenants giving— 



Average 



cash paid 



for hay 



land. 



Locality. 



One-half 

 in stack. 



One-third 

 in stack. 



One-third 

 delivered. 



Kansas : Barton County 



Per cent. 

 11 



5 



4 



40 



10 



Per cent. 

 10 



59 



53 



f d5 

 i 20 

 ) 53 

 \ dZ 



Per cent. 

 44 



11 



29 



} ' >* 

 } 9 



Per cent. 

 25 



21 



12 



18 



10 



Per cent. 

 10 



2 



2 



2 



12 



Per cent. 

 



2 











3 



/ a $8. 50 

 \ b 2. 50 

 / c 4. 20 



South Dakota: Spink County... 

 North Dakota: Barnes County.. 

 Minnesota: Renville County 



\ t> 2. 80 

 / c 4. 00 

 \ 6 2. 25 



.95 

 2.70 



a Alfalfa. 

 6 Wild. 

 c Tame. 



d These percentages of the tenants in the North Dakota and Minnesota areas secure hay land in return for 

 working out the farm road tax. 



Many of the Kansas and South Dakota tenant farms are deficient 

 in hay land. Tenants in the Kansas area frequently pay as much as 

 $10 an acre for alfalfa hay land located off the farm, alfalfa lands 

 commanding a higher rent than any other farm land in that locality. 

 The deficiency of hay land on the farms in the South Dakota area 

 was supplied by wild hay from the school lands which are still 

 abundant there. 



PASTURING WHEAT AND THE DIVISION OF STALKS AND STRAW. 

 PASTURING WHEAT. 



In the Kansas and Nebraska areas where winter wheat is grown, 

 the tenant is sometimes allowed to pasture wheat at his discretion, 

 it being understood that it w r ill not be pastured either in very dry 

 or very wet weather. In many instances the pasturing of grain is 

 forbidden in the contract. 



The cornstalks are nearly always the property of the tenant, 

 but he may not have the stock to make proper use of them, and that 

 use is often limited by the lack of fencing. In the Minnesota area, 

 the only one of the localities visited where wheat was not the pre- 

 dominant crop, more corn is raised by the average tenant, who keeps 

 more stock and makes more effective use of farm forage. 



The tenant with rare exceptions has the use of all the straw produced 

 on these farms. He generally feeds most of the oat straw, uses some 

 of the wheat straw for bedding, some for mulching potatoes or young 

 trees, and may scatter some of it on the land, but except in the 

 Minnesota area most of the wheat straw is burned. 



