FARMING IN YAZOO—MISSISSIPPI DELTA. 9 
appears that the tenant, on the average, receives more for his labor 
on land rented for cash and on the share renters’ land than on land 
' operated by share croppers. ‘This difference is probably influenced 
~ but not entirely accounted for by the size of holdings, the labor 
~ income being $18 per acre for cash renters, $17 for share croppers, 
- and $15 for share renters. The relationship between labor income 
~ and type of tenure is further considered on page 10. 
_ A question of importance is, what share of the total income pro- 
_ duced on the land rented by the different methods remains in the 
hands of the persons who work the land, after the landlord has been 
' paid? The total amount received by labor is the sum of the labor 
~ income, including money earned by work outside of the farm, plus 
- the value of the unpaid labor of the tenant’s family, and the cost of 
- hired labor. Out of every dollar earned by the farms included in 
_ this study 73 cents went to labor. This amount is much higher 
_ than corresponding amounts in other sections of the country studied 
by the Office of Farm Management; in the corn belt labor receives 
about 50 cents out of every dollar of income, and in some of the 
intensive farming regions of the east, 53 cents. The cash renters 
in the Delta retained 82 cents out of every dollar earned; the share 
renters, 70 cents; and the share croppers, 67 cents. 
The average rate of interest on the landlord’s investment was 
13.6 per cent on land rented to share croppers, 11.8 per cent on 
land in the hands of share renters, and 6.6 per cent on land operated 
by cash renters. 
No allowance has been made in these rates for taxes paid by the 
landlord on his land, so that about 1 per cent should be subtracted 
from the above figures to obtain the net earnings on the investment. 
The relationship between the landlord’s profits and the system of 
tenure is further discussed on page 12. 
A measure of the productivity of the tenants’ labor under the 
different systems of tenure may be obtained by comparing the 
amounts produced by the tenants, after subtracting the value of 
the labor of the tenants’ families and of hired labor. (Table V.) 
TABLE V. 
All Share Share Cash 
Per tenant. : tenants. |croppers.} renters. | renters. 
Value of cotton sold: 
TNE SS SO IE RSET eee Se eat eT uae a te a ne yee $845 $757 $940 $932 
SOOG oc Soda AUN SUN ES Aes UNS Fea See ee meee UN ns greene ter 139 126 151 153 
Mia Ineronconneraised syne) eine nae oc ek RO 72 40 100 100 
Value of labor performed outside of farm.....................-. 23 27 25 15 
Total value of products and of outside labor.............- 1,079 950 1, 216 1, 200 
> Value of family labor and of hired labor..............---.---+-- 174 134 211 217 
Waluemroduced pyitemant so. aks oe 3 eee eee 905 816 1,005 983 
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