UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
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BULLETIN No. 411 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
Contribution from the Office of Farm Management 
W. J. Spillman, Chief 
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Washington, D. C. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
September 14, 1916 
SYSTEMS OF RENTING TRUCK FARMS IN SOUTH 
WESTERN NEW JERSEY. 
By Howard A. Turner, Scientific Assistant. 
CONTENTS. 
Results 1 
Location and description of the area 2 
Relation of profits in 1913 to a normal year. . . 3 
Classification of farms 3 
Acreagesand values of crops 4 
Early-truck farms let for half of the crops 5 
Page. 
Late-truck farms let for half of the crops 10 
Farms let for half of the crops and half of the 
milk 13 
Farms let for a share other than a half 16 
Cash renting 17 
Variation in incomes 18 
The facts on which this discussion is based were collected in the 
summer of 1914 in a truck-farming area in southwestern New Jersey. 
The purpose of the study was to make a comparative analysis of the 
methods of renting in vogue in such an area, to find the sources and 
amounts of the expenses and income, how they were divided between 
landlord and tenant, and what kind and how much capital was 
furnished by each party to the contract. Tenants to the number of 
246 were visited on their farms and inquiries made of them concerning 
methods of renting, capital employed, crops grown, and the receipts 
and expenses for the crop year 1913. The records secured are 
representative of the section, and include a number of farms under 
each system of renting for each of two types of truck farming, early 
and late. On many of these farms dairying is combined with trucking. 
RESULTS. 
It was found that the method of renting in most common use is 
the half-share system, under which the tenant furnishes labor, teams, 
stock, and tools, and gives as rent half the grain and half of the 
returns from truck and other crops sold, but none of the receipts 
from live stock. In the case of the larger and more desirable truck 
and dairy farms the landlord gets half of the returns from the dairy, 
in addition to half of the returns from all sales of crops. A few farms 
are rented for cash and occasionally one for a share other than half. 
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