FARM MANAGEMENT STUDY OP COTTON FARMS. 21 
The cropper, or " half hand " as he is often called locally, is a 
laborer rather than a tenant. He is furnished with a house and small 
garden patch ; often he is permitted to keep a cow or horse for his 
own use. A definite acreage is set aside by the operator on which 
the cropper grows the crops, furnishing all the man labor for this 
acreage. The operator furnishes all poAver and machinery for the 
cultivation. When the crops are gathered, the operator and cropper 
share equally in the division, each paying for his share of the 
ginning. 
The value of the cropper's labor, together with the cost of ginning 
his share of cotton, averages $9.56 per acre at current wage rates. 
His share of the crops, which is what he receives for his labor, 
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amounts to $15.34 per acre, which leaves a profit to the cropper of 
$5.78 per acre. 
Table IX. — Distribution of cropper expenses and receipts, and net income 
(40 croppers, 24 farms, Ellis Count)/, Tex.). 
Number of farms 24 
Number of croppers 40 
Acres per cropper 59 
Number of days miscellaneous productive labor per cropper 2S 
Cropper's receipts from crops $860 
Cropper's receipts from miscellaneous labor 42 
Cropper's total receipts 902 
