8 BULLETIN 850, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Table III. — Comparative methods of renting hay lands. 
Tenants 
getting 
free hay 
land. 
Tenants 
paying 
cash for 
hay land. 
Tenants 
having 
no hay 
land. 
Tenants giving— 
Average 
cash paid 
for hay 
land. 
Locality. 
One-half 
in stack. 
One-third 
in stack. 
One-tliird 
delivered. 
Kansas : Barton County 
Nebraska: Clay County 
Per cent. 
11 
5 
4 
40 
10 
Per cent. 
10 
59 
53 
/ dh 
i 20 
J 53 
\ dZ 
Per cent. 
44 
11 
29 
1 " 
Per cent. 
25 
21 
12 
18 
10 
Per cent. 
10 
2 
2 
2 
12 
Per cent. 

2 


3 
/ a $8. 50 
\ 6 2. 50 
f c 4. 20 
South Dakota: Spink County... 
North. Dakota: Barnes County.. 
Minnesota: Renville County 
\ b 2. 80 
/ c 4. 00 
\ & 2. 25 
.95 
2.70 
a Alfalfa. 
& Wild. 
c Tame. 
d These percentages of the tenants in the North Dakota and Minnesota areas secure hay land in return for 
working out the farm road tax. 
Many of the Kansas and South Dakota tenant farms are deficient 
in hay land. Tenants in the Kansas area frequently pay as much as 
$10 an acre for alfalfa hay land located off the farm, alfalfa lands 
commanding a higher rent than any other farm land in that locality. 
The deficiency of hay land on the farms in the South Dakota area 
was supplied by wild hay from the school lands which are still 
abundant there. 
PASTURING WHEAT AND THE DIVISION OF STALKS AND STRAW. 
PASTURING WHEAT." 
In the Kansas and Nebraska areas where winter wheat is grown, 
the tenant is sometimes allowed to pasture wheat at his discretion, 
it being understood that it will not be pastured either in very dry 
or very wet weather. In many instances the pasturing of grain is 
forbidden in the contract. 
STALKS. 
The cornstalks are nearly always the property of the tenant, 
but he may not have the stock to make proper use of them, and that 
use is often limited by the lack of fencing. In the Minnesota area, 
the only one of the localities visited where wheat was not the pre- 
dominant crop, more corn is raised by the average tenant, who keeps 
more stock and makes more effective use of farm forage. 
STRAW. 
The tenant with rare exceptions has the use of all the straw produced 
on these farms. He generally feeds most of the oat straw, uses some 
of the wheat straw for bedding, some for mulching potatoes or young 
trees, and may scatter some of it on the land, but except in the 
Minnesota area most of the wheat straw is burned. 
