) BULLETIN 694, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The investment on share-rented tenant farms averaged nearly 
$3,000 more than on owned farms. The value of real estate per acre 
was practically the same on both owner and tenant farms. These 
share-rented farms have an average of 31 more acres per farm than 
the owner farms. There is no great variation in. the distribution of 
capital on these farms from that on the owned farms. The landlord 
shares a part of the live-stock investment on all share-rented farms. 
The cows and hogs are usually shared equally, but the relative shares 
of each other class of live stock vary somewhat on each farm. 
The cash-rented farms averaged 2 acres.less in size than the owned 
farms, and the value of real estate per acre $5 less. 
UTILIZATION OF LAND. 
The area under discussion.is well developed, the farms are well 
improved, and most of the land is utilized to good advantage. As 
will be seen by Table IT, an average of 90.2 per cent of the total area 
of all the farms studied is improved land, only 2.9 per cent being 
woodland, and 6.9 per cent classed as other lands, which includes ~ 
roads, fence rows, and waste lands in general. An average of 74.2 
per cent of the total farm area of these farms is tillable, and 56.3 per 
cent is in crops. The table shows, further, that an average of 33.8 
per cent of the total area of all the farms studied is in pasture. This 
acreage is made up of 10.6 per cent rotation pasture and 23.2 per cent 
permanent pasture, 7.2 per cent of the latter being tillable. As a 
rule the farms of different sizes show no material difference in these 
items, hence only the averages are given and these are for the entire 
number of farms. 
TaBLE Il.—Utilization of farm area on 300 owner farms and 153 tenant farms, Lenawee 
County, Mich. 
INVCPAG OBITS 2 Oo 2 65 es A RN to ee OE ee ep = ys UCEES sey eels 
Percentage of total farm area in: 
Tillablearea 2.20. 2 cece Sas = Be ae ice eee ae ere ree 74.2 
CTO PrATCO a os ales oS nk 5 oo ee ee ine oe eee RE ae ee tar 56.3 
fd¥ecropiland® .2 .. sess ieee eet et ee ee el 
Potalspasture ss: ss See Ne Oe Bie ee ae ee 33. 8 
VOLAtION pasine wi2 ta. Aes eee eg eee Yi ee eee 10.6 
Permanent pasture ..£:- 2622 22 aaa bs ee eee ee ee 23.2 
‘Permanent, pasture, tillables: i. 2 S208 26s ke ee lad 
otalamprovedcland .. 0. 20 Was Be eee ee ee oe oo 90.2 
Woodland aesdoe sons Foc heya can ies Peek Se ot ere Zod 
Othendand:s tae ee Seek. oA aM ee es Se Ce Fase: 
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