16 BULLETIN 411^ TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



farms, but tlie interest on the value of real estate (18.3 per cent) 

 and the labor income of the tanant ($2,386) exceeded that of any 

 ■other of these farms. 



FARMS LET FOR A SHARE OTHER THAN A HALF. 



On 13 farms, 4 of which are of the late-truck and 9 of the early- 

 truck type, the rent was a share other than a half. Many of the men 

 owning these farms lived on or near them. They did not find it 

 desirable to farm the land personally and, finding it possible to obtain 

 labor for a share of the product in lieu of wages, adopted this method 

 of operating their farms. Their tenants usually occupied a position 

 intermediate between that of a hired laborer and that of a tenant 

 operating independently of the landlord's working capital. Without 

 sufficient capital of their own to operate a farm, these tenants were 

 unable to secure the same terms that tenants with sufficient capital 

 could get. Some of the landlords letting to such tenants had to 

 purchase the stock and tools necessary to supplement that which 

 the tenant was able to furnish, and others who had farmed the land 

 themselves or let their farms under similar conditions previously, 

 already had the necessary working capital. 



Eight of these 13 farms were leased under a two-thirds system, by 

 which the tenant furnishes the labor for one-third of the crops. The 

 landlord furnished the work stock, tools, and machinery, commercial 

 fertilizer and stable manure, feed for the work stock, and met the 

 cost of tool maintenance and most of the other general expenses. 

 The landlord personal!}^ assisted on some of the farms and, in one 

 case, paid for aU the hired picking labor. On several farms the 

 tenant had to meet a third of the cost of packages, but he was at 

 little other expense, except that if he furnished any tools or stock 

 he kept such tools in repair, and furnished the feed for his stock. On 

 most farms of this group the landlord reserved aU of the nontruck 

 crops, unless the tenant had some stock, in which case he was allowed 

 the use of the farm roughage and, in some cases, a third of the non- 

 truck crops. 



In Table XII are given the averages of the different items of 

 receipts and expenses on the 13 farms let for a share other than a half. 



