FARM MANAGEMENT STUDY OF COTTON FARMS. 21 



The cropper, or "half hand" as he is often called locally, is a 

 laborer rather than a tenant. He is furnished with a house and small 

 garden patch; often he is permitted to keep a cow or horse for his 

 own use. A definite acreage is set aside by the operator on which 

 the cropper grows the crops, furnishing all the man labor for this 

 .acreage. The operator furnishes all power and machinery for the 

 cultivation. When the crops are gathered, the operator and cropper 

 share equally in the division, each paying for his share of the 

 ginning. 



The value of the cropper's labor, together with the cost of ginning 

 his share of cotton, averages $9.56 per acre at current wage rates. 

 His share of the crops, which is what he receives for his labor, 



Pig. 4. — Type of tenant farmstead, Ellis County, Tex. 



amounts to $15.34 per acre, which leaves a profit to the cropper of 

 $5.78 per acre. 



Table IX. — Distribution of cropper expenses and receipts, and net income 

 (J/0 croppers, 24 farms, Ellis Count)/, Tex.). 



Number of farms L : 24 



Number of croppers 40 



Acres per cropper , 59 



Number of days miscellaneous productive labor per cropper 2S 



Cropper's receipts from crops $860 



Cropper's receipts from miscellaneous labor 42 



Cropper's total receipts 902 



