40 BULLETIN 1269, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
other, where the share for rent is taken out of the price paid for the 
tenant's cane. The former is more generally found on plantations 
without refineries, and the latter where the landlord operates a 
refinery. 
When the landlord receives a third of the crop, he usually contrib- 
utes his proportional share of the seed and fertilizers. Where he 
receives a smaller share, he usually furnishes nothing but land and 
buildings. The same arrangement is followed when the tenant pays 
a share of the refined sugar. There are instances on sugar-cane 
plantations where the landlord receives as rental all the refined sugar 
in excess of a certain number of pounds obtained from each ton of 
sugar cane (in 1920 all over 70 pounds, which was equivalent to 
a snare of about three-tenths or less of the product). In cases where 
a share of the refined product is the rental, tenants are frequently 
allowed free corn land. 
The share rent, which is determined by the price paid for the 
tenant's cane, is involved in the marketing contract. The contri- 
butions made by landlord and tenant are the same as described for 
the straight share of all crops. In this form of contract, however, 
the landlord pays the tenant from two-thirds to three-fourths of the 
current market price for all sugar cane produced by the tenant. In 
other words, the share is taken out of the price of the cane instead 
of the products as in other share systems. For example, if cane 
sells to local refineries at "90 cents a cent" per ton (see section on 
marketing), and the landlord pays the tenant only 60 or 70 cents a 
cent based on the price of sugar at the time of harvest, the difference 
of 20 or 30 cents is equivalent to a share rent of two-ninths or one- 
third. This means that if sugar at the time of harvest is selling at 
10 cents a pound, the refinery (the landlord in this case) would pay 
90 cents for each cent of the sugar price, or $9 per ton for the cane. 
The prevailing rate in 1920 was 90 cents a cent. 
This method of share renting sugar-cane land was doubtless 
instituted because of extreme fluctuations in the price of sugar, in 
which the landlord refiner encourages the tenant by sharing the risk 
of the producer in price fluctuation. Usually, the tenant and the 
landlord jointly provide the necessary seed cane for the following 
year, and, in case of change, the incoming tenant has seed cane 
tree of charge for the year. 
The cash rent on the sugar-cane plantation likewise has two bases. 
One is the usual rent per acre, and the other a given amount in cash 
per ton of cane produced (50 cents per ton in 1920). Under the 
cash-rent contract the landlord makes no contribution other than 
land and buildings, and receives a share of the crop or cash rent for 
crops other than sugar cane. The marketing of the tenant's cane 
in such cases is usually considered outside the rental bargain. 
On rice 'plantations. — The methods of renting rice land are even 
more exceptional than those in sugar-cane sections, in that the 
major contributions as between landlord and tenant are land, water, 
and seed. Share renting is the rule, although some cash renting 
exists, particularly where Large tracts are Leased. 
In share renting, for Land alone one-fifth share is charged; for land 
and seed, three-tenths; and for land, seed, and water, or land, seed. 
and equipment, one-half of the product is charged. Where fertilizer 
