16 BULLETIN 411, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
farms, but the 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 personally assisted on some of the farms and, in one 
case, paid for all 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 all 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. 
