2 BULLETIJSr 411^ U. S. DEEAkiivEENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



Following is a brief summarj of the more significant averages, 

 brought out by this study: 



Averages for 186 farms let for half share of crops: 

 Labor income of tenant, ^ |323. 



Landlord's interest on investment, 6.8 per cent (equivalent to a cash rent of 

 17.11 per acre). 

 Averages for 12 farms let for half share of crops and of returns from dairy: 

 Labor income of tenant, §715. 



Landlord's interest on investment, 7.7 per cent (equivalent to a cash rent of 

 18.95 per acre). 

 Averages for 35 farms let for cash rent: 

 Labor income of tenant, $206. 



Landlord's interest on investment, 3.7 per cent (equivalent to a cash rent of 

 $4.32 per acre). 



It was found that the labor income of the tenant and the per cent 

 received by the landlord on his investment are subject to greater 

 variations on farms raising early truck than on farms raising late 

 truck. 



A majority of the farmers visited considered the returns of the 

 year of the survey (1913) as somewhat bolow normal. 



LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA. 



The farms from which records were secured are in Gloucester, Salem, 

 and Cumberland Counties, within the area between the Delaware 

 River on the west and north and a line on the east drawn north 

 and south from Woodbury to Bridgeton. The soil^ of the northern 

 portion of this area is chiefly of a type known as Sassafras sand, a 

 rather loose sandy soil well adapted to the early-maturing truck crops 

 that are grown on it. In the southern portion of the area the prin- 

 cipal soil is Sassafras silt loam, a weU-drained, friable loam. The 

 farms in this southern section are of a general type, combining the 

 production of market milk and the crops necessary to feed the stock 

 with wheat and such crops as tomatoes for the cannery and early 

 white potatoes. Marsh meadows, some of which have been reclaimed 

 from the tides, form a part of many farms. These meadows afford 

 pasturago, as weU as large quantities of marsh-grass hay for forage 

 and bedding purposes. 



The West Jersey & Seashore Raiboad serves the area with three 

 branches which radiate from Woodbury, a city of 4,600, located in the 

 northeastern corner of the area and 9.6 miles south of Philadelphia. 

 There are frequent stops and sidings on these branches, and most of 



1 Labor income — that which the farmer has loft as wages for his year's work after a fair rate of interest 

 on the money he has invested in his farm enterprise has been deducted from his net returns. 



2 J. A. Bonsteel and F. W. Taylor, Soil Survey of the Salem Area, New Jersey, Field Operations of the 

 Bureau of Soils for 1901, U. S. Department of Agriculture. J. A. Bonsteel, Soils of the Sassafras Series, 

 U . fa. Department of Agricultxu-e Bulletin 159. 



