6 BULLETIN 411, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
labor, while the landlord furnishes the use of the land and buildings, 
the commercial fertilizer and manure, and meets a part of some other 
expenses. The landlord receives a half of the grain produced and a 
half of the proceeds from sales of truck and other crops, but the tenant 
has all the receipts from live stock and live-stock products. 
The sales of truck. crops are divided equally on all farms. Where 
there was a field of asparagus the landlord in a few cases reserved this 
crop, furnishing the labor for it and securing all of the income. 
Field corn was grown by 82 of the 90 half -crop tenants. Most of 
these tenants had a half of the corn, several had two-thirds, and 18 
had all. On many farms the entire corn crop was insufficient to feed 
the few animals kept, so that the tenant seldom had any corn to sell. 
The landlord's share, where a share is reserved as rent, was some- 
times sold to the tenant. The straw, corn fodder, and hay are kept 
on the farm and utilized by the tenant, who is encouraged by the 
landlord to make as much farm manure as possible. Not infre- 
quently, when the hay or bedding produced on the place is insufficient 
for the tenant's stock, more is bought for him by the landlord. Where 
there is surplus hay to sell, as there was on eight farms, the proceeds 
are divided equally. On six farms the landlord required, as part of 
the rent, a share of the hay, but in -only two cases as much as half. 
Of nontruck crops, including corn, corn fodder, wheat, straw, hay, 
and marsh hay, an average of $635 worth was produced on each farm, 
of which only $148 worth was sold, the landlord selling $131 worth. 
On the 90 farms growing early truck crops the use of large quan- 
tities of manure is imperative, because of the light, sandy nature of 
the soil, which responds quickly to the application of manure, but 
quite as quickly loses its f ertility. As but little live stock is kept on 
these farms, most of the manure used must be purchased. Commer- 
cial fertilizer was purchased on all these farms, and stable manure on 
all but three. The landlord in every case paid all the cost of the 
stable manure, which averaged $385 per farm on the 87 farms purchas- 
ing manure. The landlord paid the cost of all commercial fertilizer 
on 75 farms and a half or more on the other 15 farms. 
It is often not practicable for the tenant to grow sufficient feed on 
the farm to provide for the needs of the stock kept, because of the 
necessity of devoting much of the small acreage to truck crops and 
because of the light nature of the soil and the resultant low yields of 
field crops. Grain bought is paid for by the tenant, since he has all 
of the income from stock. Hay or marsh grass for feeding, bedding, 
or fitter purposes was purchased for their tenants by 41 landlords at 
an average cost of $75. 
In Table IV is shown the variation as to practice in the sharing of 
the principal expenses. It will be seen that the landlord very fre- 
quently pays more than half of the cost of purchased fertility. 
