RENTING TEUCK FAEMS IN NEW JEESEY. 



Table IV. — Variation in practice as to sharing of expenses on 90 New Jersey early-truch 

 farrns rented for half of the crops. 





__ Number of farms. 



Items of expense. 



Having 

 no such 



ex- 

 pense. 



Method of sharing expense. 



• 



Land- 

 lord 

 all. 



Half 

 and 

 half. 



Tenant 

 all. 



Other methods. 





2 



46 

 •30 







47 



2 



1 



Landlord furnished a part or all of the 

 roughage on 41 farms. 



Seed potatoes (white) 



12" 



175 



87 



2 

 3 



42 



47 



17 







Fertilizer 



Landlord furnishes all except half of 

 white potato fertilizer on 6 farms. 

 Tenant furnishes a little less than 

 half on 3 farms. 



Manure 



3 

 10 





78 



44 

 43 



44 

 14 



90 

 57 







Tenant more than half on 1 farm and 



Bastets (gathering) . 



less than half on 1 farm. 





28 







2 farms. 



Labor 









Landlord pays a part of the cost of 

 picking on 33 farms. 



Eeal-e^ate taxes 





81 

 90 



9 







A few minor exceptions. 







i 



1 On 1 farm the tenant furnished the potato fertilizer and the seed white potatoes and had the entire crop. 



The expense for purchased seed was not large, except for the white 

 potato crop. A few tenants grew a part of their seed white potatoes, 

 but this is not a general practice. Tomato and melon seed, seed 

 sweet potatoes, and seed wheat and corn are customarily saved by 

 the tenant from the crops of the previous year. Where seed is 

 bought it is usual for the landlord to pay haK of the cost, but on 

 some farms the cost of grass seed is paid entirely by the landlord. 



The tenant is expected to raise the necessary tomato, sweet potato, 

 pepper, melon, and other plants, and for the purpose of starting these 

 the farms are equipped with flue-heated hotbeds. The wood used 

 for fuel in these hotbeds is usually cut on the farm by the tenant, 

 although in some instances fuel must be bought, in which case the 

 tenant frequently pays half. Sash are used to cover such of these 

 beds as are used in starting tomatoes, while straw, marsh grass, and 

 cloth are commonly used to cover beds in which sweet potatoes are 

 started. The sash may or may not be owned in common by landlord 

 and tenant, but the landlord usually owns more than half. The 

 tenant ordinarily makes the minor repairs on the sash owned by the 

 landlord, but he is not expected to furnish the materials with which 

 to make such repairs. 



The tenant furnishes all labor for ordinary farm work, but the land- 

 lord fr(!quent]y pays half of the cost of picking tomatoes for the 

 cannery, especially when the price received per basket has dropped 

 to 10 or 12 cents or less, but there would seem to be no definitely 

 established practice in this respecjt. Tomatoes are sold in crates as 



