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BULLETIN 337,- U. S. DEPARTMENT OF "AGRICULTURE. 



The share cropper produced $816, the share renter $1,005, the cash 

 renter $983. This difference in productivity may be due in part to 

 the relative size of the holdings of the different classes of tenants, but 

 is more directly attributable to the greater amount of family labor 

 and hired labor employed by the renters, since the value of the addi- 

 tional crop produced by the labor is greater than the wages paid. It 

 may also be that cash renters and share renters, as a class, are more 

 industrious than share croppers. 



LABOR INCOME IN RELATION TO METHOD OF RENTING. 



Table VI shows the number and the percentage of each class of 

 tenants whose labor income fell in each specified group, and the aver- 

 age labor income for each group. The accompanying chart (fig. 2) 

 presents the percentages graphically. 



Table VI. 



Class of tenants. 



Total. 



Labor income. 



Defi- 

 cit. 



Un- 



SiOO 



$200 



$300 



$400 



$500 



$600 



$700 



$800 



$900 



der 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



to 



S100. 



$199. 



$299. 



$399. 



$499. 



$599. 



$699. 



$799. 



$899. 



$999. 



$1,000 

 and 



All tenants 



Share croppers 

 Share renters . . 

 Cash renters... 



All tenants 



Share croppers 

 Share renters . . 

 Cash renters . . . 



All tenants 



Share croppers 

 Share renters . . 

 Cash renters . . . 



$392 

 333 

 398 

 478 



Number having each income. 



878 



18 



35 



105 



194 



209 



123 



62 



39 



34 



19 



9 



445 



1 



12 



57 



123 



143 



61 



26 



12 



6 



2 





136 



4 



7 



20 



21 



25 



23 



10 



8 



8 



5 



1 



297 



13 



16 



28 



50 



41 



39 



26 



19 



20 



12 



8 



Per cent having each income. 



Average income for each income group. 



100.0 



2.0 



4.0 



12.0 



22.1 



23.8 



14.0 



7.1 



4.4 



3.9 



2.2 



1.0 



100.0 



.2 



2.7 



12.8 



27.6 



32.1 



13.7 



5.8 



2.7 



1.4 



.5 





100.0 



2.9 



5.1 



14.7 



15.4 



13.4 



16.9 



7.4 



5.9 



5.9 



3.7 



.7 



100.0 



4.4 



5.4 



9.4 



16.9 



13.8 



13.1 



8.8 



6.4 



6.7 



4.0 



2.7 



3.5 



.5 



3.0 



8,4 



$64 



126 



77 



56 



$63 

 68 

 62 

 59 



$156 

 162 

 154 

 146 



$249 

 250 

 256 

 245 



$345 

 342 

 348 

 354 



$447 

 447 

 447 

 448 



$542 

 536 

 542 

 547 



$649 

 648 

 626 

 656 



$746 

 752 

 750 

 743 



$857 

 887 

 847 

 856 



$950 



910 

 956 



$1,344 

 1,455 

 1,220 

 1,355 



Only one of the share croppers had a deficit during the year, that 

 is, received less for his share of the cotton than the value of his family's 

 labor, and only 2.7 per cent of them made less than $100; the great 

 majority of the share croppers (86.3 per cent) had labor incomes of 

 between $100 and $499, and only one-tenth of them made as much as 

 $500. Of the share renters 2.9 per cent reported deficits and 5.1 per 

 cent positive incomes of less than $100; about two-thirds made 

 between $100 and $499, and more than one-fourth made $500 and 

 over. In the case of cash renters 4.4 per cent lost money and 5.4 



