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BULLETIN 411, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
long as a fay* price can be obtained, and the remainder of the crop is 
sold for canning purposes. The price obtained for tomatoes sold to 
the canneries sometimes drops so low that when the tenant hires his 
picking done it becomes unprofitable for him to handle the crop for 
half, unless the landlord pays a part of the cost of picking. The 
price usually paid for picking cannery tomatoes is 1^ to 2 cents a 
basket. More is paid for the picking of early tomatoes for city 
markets, but this expense is paid entirely by the tenant. 
The landlord pays a half of the cost of packages in which crops 
are sold. The tenant frequently furnishes all of the baskets in which 
crops are gathered and in which the tomatoes are carried to the 
canneries. 
The tenant meets the cost of tool and stock maintenance. On 81 
of the 90 early-truck farms the landlord paid all of the real-estate tax, 
and on the other farms the tenant paid half. 
In Table V are summarized the average receipts and expenses of 
the 90 early-truck farms, 
Table V. — Landlord's and tenant's average receipts and expenses on 90 New Jersey 
early -truck farms rented for half of the crops. 
Landlord. Tenant 
Sources of receipts: 
Xontruck crops sold 
Tomatoes 
Sweet potatoes 
White potatoes 
Other sales of truck 
Dairy products (3.3 cows) . 
Poultry and eggs 
Other income from stock . . 
Other receipts 
Total receipts . 
Items of expense: 
Feed 
Seed 
Commercial fertilizer , 
Stable manure 
Packages 
Spray material 
Tool maintenance, estimated at 18 per cent on value 
Sash maintenance, estimated at 10 per cent on value 
Hired labor, board included 
Family labor 
Real-estate tax 
Maintenance of buildings, estimated at 4 per cent on value . 
Other expenses 
Total expenses . 
Interest on landlord's capital 
Labor income of tenant and interest on his capital , 
Interest at 6 per cent on working capital » (landlord S535, tenant $2,398). 
Labor income of tenant - 
Interest on real estate (7.4 per cent on S6,909) 3 
Equivalent cash rent per acre, S6.88. 4 
34 
35 
350 
372 
109 
1,099 
542 
■:,2 
"sio 
817 
727 
536 
64 
171 
126 
16S 
64 
1.SS0 
238 
33 
23 
117 
8 
121 
8 
704 
162 
4 
1,47; 
403 
144 
259 
i Working capital.— The capital used to operate the farm, and consisting of work stock, productive stock, 
tools and machinery, sash, feed and supplies, and cash necessary to meet current farm expenses. 
2 Labor income of the tenant .— What he gets for his year's work in addition to the use of a nouse and farm 
food and luel products.. It is obtained by deducting from his receipts all his farm expenses, including the 
cost of hired labor, the value of family labor employed on farm work, whether paid or unpaid, and interest 
and maintenance charges on his working capital. 
3 Interest on real estate .—What the landlord gets for the year's use o' the farm (land and buildings). It is 
obtained by deducting from his receipts all farm expense's met by him, including maintenance charges on 
his working capital and farm buildings and interest on his working capital. 
4 Equivalent cash rent. — Consists of interest on the real-estate investment, building maintenance, and all 
real-estate taxes, whether paid by owner or tenant. 
