8 BULLETIN" 004, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The investment on share-rented tenant farms averaged nearly 

 $3,000 more than on owned farms. The value of real estate per acre 

 was practically the same on both owner and tenant farms. These 

 share-rented farms have an average of 31 more acres per farm than 

 the owner farms. There is no great variation in the distribution of 

 capital on these farms from that on the owned farms. The landlord 

 shares a part of the Uve-stock investment on all share-rented farms. 

 The cows and hogs are usually shared equally, but the relative shares 

 of each other class of live stock vary somewhat on each farm. 



The cash-rented farms averaged 2 acres less m size than the owned 

 farms, and the value of real estate per acre $5 less. 



UTILIZATION OF LAND. 



The area under discussion is well developed, the farms are well 

 improved, and most of the land is utihzed to good advantage. As 

 wiU be seen by Table II, an average of 90.2 per cent of the total area 

 of aU the farms studied is improved land, only 2.9 per cent being 

 woodland, and 6.9 per cent classed as other lands, which includes 

 roads, fence rows, and waste lands in general. An average of 74.2 

 per cent of the total farm area of these farms is tillable, and 56.3 per 

 cent is in crops. The table shows, further, that an average of 33.8 

 per cent of the total area of aU the farms studied is in pasture. Tliis 

 acreage is made up of 10.6 per cent rotation pasture and 23.2 per cent 

 permanent pasture, 7.2 per cent of the latter being tillable. As a 

 rule the farms of different sizes show no material difference in these 

 items, hence only the averages are given and these are for the entire 

 number of farms. 



Table II. — -Utilization of farm area on 300 owner farms and 153 tenant farms , Lenawee 



County, Mich. 

 Average size acres . . 112 



Percentage of total farm area in : 



Tillable area 74. 2 



Crop area , 56. 3 



Idle crop land 1 



Total pasture 33. 8 



Rotation pasture 10. 6 



Permanent pasture 23. 2 



Permanent pasture, tillable. 7.2 



Total improved land 90. 2 



Woodland 2.9 



Other land : 6.9 



