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BULLETIN 1258, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 60. — Summary for farms operated by tenants for one-half share of crops 
and livestock. 
Item. 
1910 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
Number of farms 
u 
181 
$30. 309 
18 
189 
$39, 816 
19 
182 
$38, 961 
w 
198 
$42. 152 
18 
188 
$40, 086 
16 
186 
$40. 964 
15 
170 
$42, 993 
14 
163 
Capital: 
Farm 
$43, 677 
Tenant 
Landlord 
2, 051 
28,258 
2. 253 
37, 563 
2,437 
36, 524 
2,646 
39,506 
2,482 
37, 604 
2,893 
38, 071 
2,828 
40, 165 
3, 173 
40, 499 
Receipts: 
Farm 
3,193 
3, 066 
3,100 
3.830 
3,983 
4.704 
5,447 
5,314 
Tenant 
1.642 
1, 561 
1,615 
1,463 
1, 668 
1,432 
2,017 
1, 845 
2.072 
1,930 
2.606 
2,408 

2,808 
2,655 
2,684 
2,630 
Expenses: 
Farm 
1,019 
1,164 
1,266 
1,455 
1,203 
1,432 
1,888 
2,004 
Tenant 
600 
424 
666 
510 
758 
508 
871 
616 
689 
538 
1,034 
758 
1,123 
7S1 
1, 153 
Landlord 
851 
Farm income: 
Farm 
2.179 
1,902 
1,834 
2,375 
2,775 
3,222 
3, 559 
3,310 
Tenant 
Landlord 
1,042 
1,137 
949 
953 
910 
924 
1,146 
1,229 
1, 383 
1,392 
1, 572 
1,650 
1, 685 
1.874 
1,531 
.1, 779 
Labor income: 
Farm 
663 
939 
—89 
836 
—114 
788 
268 
1,014 
771 
1,259 
1.174 
1,427 
1,409 
1,543 
1,126 
1,372 
Per cent return on capital: 
6.6 
34.1 
4.0 
3.9 
26.4 
2.5 
3.9 
24.6 
2.5 
4.8 
29.8 
3.1 
5.3 
41.3 
3.7 
6.8 
39.7 
4.3 
7.0 
40.3 
4.7 
6.0 
Tenant 
26.0 
4.4 
Family living from the farm: 
Farm 
Tenant - ..- . - - 
260 
260 
210 
210 
267 
267 
274 
274 
322 
322 
372 
372 
456 
456 
483 
483 
Note.— For apparent discrepancies, between this table and Table 58, in receipts and expenses for owner, 
owner-additional, and tenant farms, see note, Table 1, and note, Table 50. 
SUMMARY. 
The locality in which this investigation was made is about 40 
miles north of Indianapolis, Inch, and in the heart of the eastern 
part of the Corn Belt. The 100 farms under study averaged 127 
acres in size, with 45 of them snuiller than 100 acres and only 15 of 
them larger than 180 acres. They were smaller than the farms in 
some other parts of the Corn Belt. 
About a third of the land is put to corn, practically all of which 
is harvested for grain ; a little less than a third to small grains (in the 
ratio of about two-thirds oats, one-third wheat, with a sprinkling of 
rye) , and a little less than a fourth to clover and timothy (about half 
of which was used as pasture only, and the other half for hay or 
clover seed, or both). 
Close to half of the farms sold little or none of their corn pro- 
duction, while others sold varying proportions ranging from 10 
to over 90 per cent. For all of the 100 farms for all of the eight 
years (1910, and 1913-1919), about one-fourth of the total corn 
production was sold as a cash crop, but varying from 16 to 30 per cent 
lor the different years. Of the small-grain production, 51 per cent of 
the rye, 76 per cent of the oats, and 82 per cent of the wheat were 
sold as cash crops. While most of the clover and timothy were used 
as pasture and hay on the farms on which they were produced, 
the crops from about 17 per cent of the clover and timothy acreage 
were sold for cash as hay and clover seed. 
