FARMING IN YAZOO-MISSISSIPPI DELTA. 



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per cent made less than $100; but only a little more than one-half 

 (53 per cent) had labor incomes of between $100 and $499, and 37 per 

 cent made $500 or more, as many as 25, or 8.4 per cent, being in the 

 $1,000 and over class. Thus the share croppers run a smaller risk of 

 losses or of incomes below $100, but on the other hand only one-tenth 

 of them rise above $500 and almost none above $1,000. In the case 

 of the share renters there are more failures, more very small incomes, 

 but also more incomes of over $500; while of the cash renters about 

 one-tenth make less than $100, a little more than one-half make 

 between $100 and $499, and more than one-third make $500 or more. 

 Table VII brings out the differences between the earnings of the 

 three classes of tenants in a different manner. This table shows what 



CROPPERS 



SHARE HSK53 RENTERS 



CASH F? y^l RENTERS 



Fig. 2.— Percentage of tenants in each labor income group. 



proportion of each class of tenants made labor incomes of not less 

 than $100, not less than $200, etc. Of the share croppers 84.3 per cent 

 made at least $200, as compared with 77.3 per cent of the share renters 

 and 80.8 per cent of the cash renters, but of the share croppers only 

 24.6 per cent made as much as $400, of the share renters 43.5 per cent 

 and of the cash renters 50.1 per cent; so that cash renters had twice 

 as good a chance of making not less than $400 for their labor as did 

 share croppers. The difference in favor of the cash renters becomes 

 even greater in the higher income groups, the share renters always 

 occupying an intermediate position between the other two classes. 

 For instance, only one share cropper in a hundred made as much as 

 $800, as compared with 7 share renters and 15 cash renters; only one 

 3hare cropper in 200 made a labor income of as much as $1,000, as 



