RENTING TRUCK FARMS IN NEW JERSEY. 
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In Table VII is shown the variation as to practice in the sharing of 
some of the more important expenses. 
Table VII. — Variation in practice as to sharing of expenses on 96 New Jersey late-truck 
farms rented for half the crops. 
Number of farms. 
Items of expense. 
Having 
no 
such 
ex- 
pense. 
Method of sharing expense. 
Land- 
lord all. 
Half 
and 
half. 
Tenant 
all. 
Other methods. 
1 
5 
9 
43 
88 
r 
Landlord furnishes all roughage on 7 
farms. 
i" 
1 
21 
1 
1 
91 
86 
51 
76 
Tenant 40 per cent, 1 farm. 
Tenant 33 per cent on 8 farms. Tenant 
33 per cent in the row and 50 per cent 
of other on 1 farm. Tenant 50 per 
cent in the row only on 9 farms. 
Tenant 16 per cent, 1 farm. 
75 
6 
8 
42 
63 
46 
24 
96 
94 
1 
Tenant 60 per cent, 1 farm. 
Landlord pays a part of the cost of 
picking, 2 farms. 
Tenant less than half on 6 farms. 
Real-estate tax 
20 
96 
69 
A few minor exceptions. 
Purchased stable manure was used on 21 farms at an average cost 
of $135, all of which was paid by the landlord. Commercial ferti- 
lizer was bought on all 96 farms, but some variation was observed 
in the sharing of its cost. On 76 farms each paid half of the cost 
of all commercial fertilizer and on the other farms the landlord 
paid more than half of the cost but on only one farm did he pay 
the entire cost. On this farm a number of special truck crops were 
grown. 
The landlord, as a rule, paid half the cost of seed, which was 
chiefly seed white potatoes, for, as on the early-truck farms, it is 
not the general practice to grow seed potatoes. Tomato and grain 
seeds are saved each year. The truck crops grown are not such as 
require starting in hotbeds. 
The tenant pays all cost of picking tomatoes for the cannery, which 
is ^usually done by the regular help of the farm with but little of the 
outside piecework that is employed on farms growing early truck. 
Half of the tenants furnished all of the baskets used for picking and 
gathering crops, while on almost all of the other farms the landlord 
paid half of the cost of these baskets. It is unusual for truck crops 
to be sold in packages from these farms. 
Of the 96 tenants, one paid all, 69 paid half, 6 paid less than half, 
and the other 20 paid none of the real-estate tax. 
In Table VIII are given the average amounts of the different items 
of receipts and expenses on the 96 farms in question. 
