RENTING TRUCK FARMS IN NEW JERSEY." 
Table IV. — Variation in practice as to sharing of expenses on 90 New Jersey early-truck 
farms rented for half of 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. 
2 
46 
30 
47 
2 
1 
Landlord furnished a part or all' of the 
roughage on 41 farms. 
12 
87 
2 
3 
42 
47 
17 
Landlord furnishes all except half of 
white potato fertilizer on 6 farms. 
Tenant furnishes a little less than 
half on 2 farms. 
3 
10 
Crates and hampers 
is':: 
Tenant more than half on 1 farm and 
44 
43 
44 
14 
90 
57 
less than half on 1 farm. 
28 
2 farms. 
Landlord pays a part of the cost of 
picking on 33 farms. 
81 
90 
9 
A few minor exceptions. 
i On 1 farm the tenant furnished the potato fertilizer and the seed white potatoes and had the entire crop. 
The expense for purchased seed was not large, except for the white 
potato crop. A few tenants grew a part of their seed white potatoes, 
but this is not a general practice. Tomato and melon seed, seed 
sweet potatoes, and seed wheat and corn are customarily saved by 
the tenant from the crops of the previous year. Where seed is 
bought it is usual for the landlord to pay half of the cost, but on 
some farms the cost of grass seed is paid entirely by the landlord. 
The tenant is expected to raise the necessary tomato, sweet potato, 
pepper, melon, and other plants, and for the purpose of starting these 
the farms are equipped with flue-heated hotbeds. The wood used 
for fuel in these hotbeds is usually cut on the farm by the tenant, 
although in some instances fuel must be bought, in which case the 
tenant frequently pays half. Sash are used to cover such of these 
beds as are used in starting tomatoes, while straw, marsh grass, and 
cloth are commonly used to cover beds in which sweet potatoes are 
started. The sash may or may not be owned in common by landlord 
and tenant, but the landlord usually owns more than half. The 
tenant ordinarily makes the minor repairs on the sash owned by the 
landlord, but he is not expected to furnish the materials with which 
to make such repairs. 
The tenant furnishes all labor for ordinary farm work, but the land- 
lord frequently pays half of the cost of picking tomatoes for the 
cannery, especially when the price received per basket has dropped 
to 10 or 12 cents or less, but there would seem to be no definitely 
established practice in this respect. Tomatoes are sold in crates as 
