UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



i BULLETIN No. 411 ^^ 



?M^^il^ OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY ^ 



^^S«\.AI^T' Contribution from the Office of Farm Management "^^t-t -t^ 



jrU^'^UV W. J. SpiUman, Chief S^f^'^^U 



Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER September 14, 1916 



SYSTEMS OF RENTING TRUCK FARMS IN SOUTH- 

 WESTERN NEW JERSEY. 



By Howard A. Turner, Scientific Assistant. 



CONTENTS. 



Results 1 



Location and description of the area 2 



Relation of profits in 1913 to a normal year. . . 3 



Classification of farms , 3 



Acreages and values of crops 4 



Early-truck farms let for half of the crops 5 



Late-truck farms let for half of the crops 10 



Farms let for half of the crops and half of the 



milk 13 



Farms let for a share other than a half 16 



Cash renting 17 



Variation in incomes '. is 



The facts on which, this discussion is based were collected in the 

 summer of 1914 in a truck-farming area in southwestern New Jersey. 

 The purpose of the study was to make a comparative analysis of the 

 methods of renting in vogue in such an area, to find the sources and 

 amounts of the expenses and income, how they were divided between 

 landlord and tenant, and what kind and how much capital was 

 furnished by each party to the contract. Tenants to the number of 

 246 were visited on their farms and inquiries made of them concerning 

 methods of renting, capital employed, crops grown, and the receipts 

 and expenses for the crop year 1913. The records secured are 

 representative of the section, and include a number of farms mider 

 each system of renting for each of two types of truck farming, early 

 and late. On many of these farms dairying is combined with trucking. 



RESULTS. 



It was found that the method of renting in most common use is 

 the haK-sharo system, under which the tenant furnishes labor, teams, 

 st^jck, and tools, and gives as r(!nt half the grain and half of the 

 returns from truck and other crops sold, but none of the receipts 

 from livfj stock. In th(> case of i\w larger and more desirable truck 

 and dairy farms the landlord gets half of the returns from the dairy, 

 in addition to half of the returns from all sales of crops. A few farms 

 are r(^nted for cash and occasionally oru^ for a sliare other than half. 



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