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compare very closely. If there is any difference, I should think it would 

 be in favor of the feterita. 



A DELEGATE: 



What would you consider an equitable basis between the landlord and 

 tenant ? 



DEAN JARDINE: 



I have had no experience but I have some decided opinions. I think 

 the landowner would be safe in erecting a silo and charging say 10 

 percent on his money. 



PROFESSOR ATKINSON: 



Would you put him up a corn crib and charge him 10 percent on that? 



DEAN JARDINE: 



No, I would not do that; but the tenant could well afford to pay him 

 10 percent on the investment in a silo. 



PROFESSOR ATKINSON: 



They ought to get the silo anyway. 



DEAN JARDINE: 



I think it would be a very good business proposition for the landlord 

 to put up a silo, even better than to put up a barn. He would get a 

 better tenant. He would be able to get the tenant to keep livestock on 

 his farm. There is nothing to interest the tenant unless there is some- 

 thing to keep him there. Some of the best farms are those where the 

 landlords have provided means to carry livestock, and it revolutionized 

 the tenant system of the state. It would put the agriculture in a much 

 more permanent position than it is today, as more land each year is going 

 into the hands of tenants; and what we have to do is to make it desirable 

 for those men to keep livestock. Where the tenant gets the benefit of 

 the crops, etc., the landlord will get a better tenant and it will be a 

 mighty good investment for him to put five or six or seven hundred 

 dollars into a silo. 



A DELEGATE: 



The question the gentleman asked regarding a fair and equitable 

 division does not seem to have been answered. That was what I was 

 most interested in. 



MR. WEBSTER: 



I wish we had time to go into that discussion, but it would take 

 more time than we can afford to take now. Professor Roy C. Potts of 

 Oklahoma is to speak before this Congress at this time, and we will now 

 hear from him: 



