RENTING TRUCK FAEMS IN NEW JERSEY. 9 
Among any group of farms, taken without reference to merit, will 
be found a few that are much more successful than the average. 
The summary of a year's business on such a farm rented for half 
the crops on which early- truck crops are grown is given in Table VI. 
Table VI. — Summary of a year's business on a successful early-truck farm let for half 
of the crops. 
Acres in farm', 120; value of farm, $10,000; buildings alone, $3,000. 
Working capital furnished by tenant, $3,225, consisting of stock (4 horses, 3 cows, 7 hogs, 40 hens), $1,125; 
machinery and tools, $1,200; feed and supplies, $300; cash, $600. 
Working capital furnished by landlord, $1,260, consisting of 280 sash, fertilizer, manure, packages, etc. 
Acres in pasture. 8. 
Acres in nontruck crops, 25 (corn 15, hay 10); value of nontruck crops produced, $1,170; value of nontruck 
crops per acre, $47. 
Acres in truck crops, 48; sales, $8,900; sales per acre in truck crops, $185. 
Landlord. 
Tenant. 
Sources of receipts: 
Nontruck crops sold (landlord's half corn). 
Early tomatoes (10 acres) 
Second early tomatoes (11 acres) 
Sweet potatoes (7 acres) 
Peppers (2 acres) 
Eggplants (2 acres) 
Cantaloupes (4 acres) 
Citrons (4 acres) 
Cucumbers (2 acres) 
Asparagus (6 acres) 
Income from stock (eggs and butter) 
Income from crops and stock. 
Items of expense: 
Feed : 
Fuel for hotbeds, coal 
Seed 
Commercialfertilizers, 30 tons 
Stable manure, 300 tons 
Crates and hampers 
Baskets \ 
Spray material 
Tool maintenance, estimated at 18 per cent on value ....... 
Sash maintenance, estimated at 10 per cent on value 
Shoeing 
Taxes and insurance on working capital 
Special picking labor 
Hired labor, board included 
Family labor 
Real-estate tax 
Maintenance of buildings, estimated at 4 per cent on value . 
Total expense 
Interest on landlord's capital 
Labor income of tenant and interest on his capital . 
Six per cent interest on working capital 
Interest on real estate, 23.7 per cent 
Labor income of tenant 
$360 
1,500 
750 
500 
400 
350 
150 
225 
75 
500 
4,810 
16 
900 
900 
120 
70 
150 
120 
2,362 
2, 448 
76 
2,372 
$1,500 
750 
500 
400 
350 
150 
225 
75 
500 
28 
4,478 
120 
20 
16 
120 
50 
216 
20 
23 
70 
1,630 
2,315 
2,163 
194 
1,969. 
Compared with the average of 90 early-truck farms let for half of 
the crops, this farm had 17 more acres in truck crops, and its total 
sales of truck were almost three times as much as the average, exceed- 
ing the sales of the average farm by $5,893. The sales of truck crops 
per acre in truck amounted to $185, as compared with $96 on the 
average farm. The value of nontruck crops per acre in such crops 
was more than twice as much as on the average farm. A larger 
variety of truck crops was grown on this farm than on the average 
farm. The income from stock was very small. 
53686°— Bull. 411—16 -2 
