FARMING IN YAZOO-MISSISSIPPI DELTA. 



appears that the tenant, on the average, receives more for his labor 

 on land rented for cash and on the share renters' land than on land 

 operated by share croppers. This difference is probably influenced 

 but not entirely accounted for by the size of holdings, the labor 

 income being $18 per acre for cash renters, $17 for share croppers, 

 and $15 for share renters. The relationship between labor income 

 and type of tenure is further considered on page 10. 



A question of importance is, what share of the total income pro- 

 duced on the land rented by the different methods remains in the 

 hands of the persons who work the land, after the landlord has been 

 paid ? The total amount received by labor is the sum of the labor 

 income, including money earned by work outside of the farm, plu3 

 the value of the unpaid labor of the tenant's family, and the cost of 

 hired labor. Out of every dollar earned by the farms included in 

 this study 73 cents went to labor. This amount is much higher 

 than corresponding amounts in other sections of the country studied 

 by the Office of Farm Management; in the corn belt labor receives 

 about 50 cents out of every dollar of income, and in some of the 

 intensive farming regions of the east, 53 cents. The cash renters 

 in the Delta retained 82 cents out of every dollar earned; the share 

 renters, 70 cents; and the share croppers, 67 cents. 



The average rate of interest on the landlord's investment was 

 13.6 per cent on land rented to share croppers, 11.8 per cent on 

 land in the hands of share renters, and 6.6 per cent on land operated 

 by cash renters. 



No allowance has been made in these rates for taxes paid by the 

 landlord on his land, so that about 1 per cent should be subtracted 

 from the above figures to obtain the net earnings on the investment. 

 The relationship between the landlord's profits and the system of 

 tenure is further discussed on page 12. 



A measure of the productivity of the tenants' labor under the 

 different systems of tenure may be obtained by comparing the 

 amounts produced by the tenants, after subtracting the value of 

 the labor of the tenants' families and of hired labor. (Table V.) 



Table V. 



Per tenant. 



All 



tenants. 



Sharo 

 croppers. 



Sharo 

 renters. 



Cash 

 renters. 



Value of cotton sold: 



$S45 



139 



72 



23 



■ $757 

 126 

 40 

 27 



$940 



151 



100 



25 



$932 



Seed 



153 





100 





15 









1,079 

 174 



950 



134 



1,216 

 211 



1,200 





217 









905 



816 



1,005 



9S3 







