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and cash tenancy are practically the same in extent, share tenants 
working 45.1 per cent and cash tenants 45.9 per cent of the land. 
In all the other areas, except the one selected county in Florida, share 
tenancy predominates. (Table 5, Appendix C; and fig. 10.) In 
these areas where share tenancy seems relatively less important the 
cropper system is most dominant, which fact merely indicates that 
croppers in these sections largely take the place of share tenants. 
Percentage of Improved Land Worked by Cropper and Tenant Classes in the Plantation Areas, 1919 
CROPPER 
10 20 30 40 
SHARE TENANT 
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 
SHARE STANDING 
CASH 
10 10 20 30 
CASH 
20 30 40 50 
VoOFLAND WORKED BY WHITES 
%0F LAND WORKED BY NEGROES 
Fig. 10. — This diagram shows (1) proportion of improved land worked by the different classes of planta- 
tion labor in the various areas, (2) proportion of improved land in the 93 selected counties worked by the 
different classes, and (3) relative proportion of improved land in the areas worked by white and negro 
croppers and tenants. 
Table 11. — Cultivated tenant land of 161 cotton -plantations analyzed by tenure 
and crops l 
.Kind of crops 
Cotton 
Corn 
Other crops 
All crops. .. 
Culti- 
vated 
acres 
86, 458 
36, 610 
6,008 
129, 076 
Percentage in each tenant 
Share Standing Cash 
59.0 
53.4 
51.5 
57.0 
25.3 
24.9 
24.6 
25.2 
15.7 
21.7 
23.9 
17.8 
1 Share-cash tenancy is not distinguished here, because cash-rented land is included in all three methods, 
the peculiarities of which are discussed in connection with renting arrangements. 
Less comprehensive in scope, but on the whole more exact, and in 
all probability more typical of conditions on large-scale plantations, 
are the classes of tenants shown on plantations selected for special 
study. Of 129,076 cultivated acres, for which statistics are given in 
Table 11, 57 per cent was cultivated by share tenants (not including 
croppers), 25.2 per cent by standing renters, and 17.8 per cent by 
cash tenants. With regard to numbers of such tenants, 54 per cent 
were share, 31 per cent standing, and 15 per cent cash, the distribution 
of which, by sections, is shown in Table 12. 
