8 BULLETIN 337, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
it will be seen that cash renters and share renters had, on the aver- 
age, 28 and 27 acres of cultivated land, respectively, while share 
croppers had only 19 acres. The share croppers’ land was more 
exclusively devoted to cotton than that of the renters. 
The yield of cotton per acre was 0.69 bale for share croppers and 
share renters, as compared with 0.61 for cash renters, indicating that 
the cash renters produce smaller crops than the share renters or share 
croppers, in the magnitude of whose crop the landlord is directly 
concerned. The assumption. that the landlords sometimes assign the 
poorer land to cash renters since yield per acre does not directly con- 
cern the landlord, is not borne out by Table IV. 
The average investment was considerably less ($1,811) in holdings 
of share croppers than in those of share renters ($2,504) or of cash 
renters ($2,574), but the difference was due very largely to the fact 
that the share croppers’ holdings were smaller, since the value of land 
and of buildings per acre did not differ materially for the different 
types of tenants. The average value of tools, however, was only 
$1.52 per acre on share croppers’ land, as compared with $2 on share 
renters’ and $1.83 on cash renters’, indicating that less machinery is 
used on share croppers’ holdings. Owing to cooperation, the ma- 
chinery is generally more fully utilized by share croppers than by the 
other tenants. 
_A difference worth noting is that for share croppers, where the 
mules are supplied by the landlord, the average value of mules was 
$187, while for share renters it was $147 and for cash renters $150. 
The landlords supply better mules than do the tenants and see to it 
that good use is made of the mules, the average number of bales of 
cotton and the average number of acres cultivated per mule being 
considerably greater where the mules belong to the landlords than 
where they belong to the tenants. 
The labor income of tenants was $333 for share croppers, $398 
for share renters, and $478 for cash renters. By labor income is 
meant the amount the farmer gets for his individual year’s work 
exclusive of the use of a house and the food and fuel furnished by 
the farm. It is computed by subtracting from the net receipts all 
expenses, including value of unpaid family labor, as well as interest 
on investment a allowances for fantesniica and repairs.’ It 
1 The items of expenditure were determined by obtaining estimates from the 160 planters interviewed, 
each planter’s figures being used on the records for his plantation. The averages of the estimates given 
by the pianters for the various items of expenditures were as follows: 
Hepreciation and: msuranceiom buildings. 252 ee Se. je ee per cent-- 6.0 
Repalrsionm buildings gk Sos cae See ee i Ae ee Ree ee do...- 4.5 
Depreciation of mules sae eee toe = eee re eee ee do.._-. 10:4 
Depreciation of implements and: tools. 222-2) eee e eee ees bee a eri OS 22050 
Repairsiotinip] ements ard Ochs aire syste ee re ne rea DO sais ESS Z 
Costioifeedizis one mules: maces eh. esr en eae ST oe a ae ey nee ee $94. 00 
Caostofjginninge and wrappme per bales : >a. sya a SL eee $3. 50 
CostiohOVversceime Per acret see awe So Say Paes ieee eee eee so ap ae ee ae $1. 51 
