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Table 17 shows that a greater percentage of the tenants who were 
related to the landlord are found in the lower rent groups than 
tenants who were not related. Furthermore, these lower rents 
were not paid by the kinship group of tenants because they were 
leasing a poorer grade of farms, for the rents on the kinship farms 
are lower, relative to the value of the land, than those on the non- 
kinship farms. Turning to Table 2 in the Appendix, it will be seen 
that in the great majority of the counties the kinship group of tenants 
pays smaller rents relative to the value of the land than the non- 
kinship group pays. 
It is obvious, therefore, that cases where the tenant was related 
to the landlord must be excluded in any attempt to get average cash 
rents which reflect average farm rents. 
INFLUENCE OF RACE ON CASH RENTS. 
The influence of race in the Cotton Belt and in California is of 
considerable importance in determining the amount of cash rent 
paid for land in those areas. Race is important because of the social, 
economic, and legal factors associated with it. In the South the 
negro constitutes a large part of the tenant class. Many of them are 
irresponsible, inefficient, and work under a high degree of supervision, 
and these conditions have a great influence on the rents paid by the 
colored tenants. In California, the Japanese are prohibited from 
owning land and so of necessity had to remain tenants. 17 They have 
a standard of living much lower than that of the white tenants, and 
this shows itself in the higher rents they are willing to pay. 
The problem of determining the relation of land income to land 
value is more difficult in the South than in any other section of the 
United States. Land values in the South are based directly on con- 
tract rents. The typical purchaser in the Cotton Belt is not an 
operator in the same sense as is the northern farmer. The purchaser 
in the Cotton Belt buys a plantation with the expectation of leasing 
it to tenants. The price he is willing to pay for it is determined by 
the rents which these tenants can pay. Since contract rents deter- 
mine land values in the South, it would seem that the problem of 
determining the relation of land income to land value by the use of 
cash-rent data would be relatively simple in the Cotton Belt but this 
is not the case. 
It was stated previously that average cash rents in the Soutli were 
based on the rents paid by the white tenants only. But why were 
the white tenants selected ( (1) Are the average rents paid by colored 
tenants different from those paid by white tenants and. if so. why \ 
(2) Are the average rents of the white tenants a better reflection of 
the income which is capitalized into the value of the land than the 
average rents of the colored tenants? Table IS sets forth the facts 
regarding the rents paid by both classes of tenants. 
17 Under present law Japanese can not even lease land. 
