UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 603 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
Contribution from the Office of Farm Management 
W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief 
Washington, D. G. 
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 
April 10, 1918 
A STUDY OF SHARE-RENTED DAIRY FARMS IN 
GREEN COUNTY, WIS., AND KANE COUNTY, ILL. 
By E. A. Boeger, Agriculturist. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. 
Systems of share-renting 2 
Summary of results 3 
Regions studied 4 
Page. 
Variation in duty of landlord and of tenant. . 6 
Factors of efficiency 8 
Relation of farm practices to profits 12 
The great increase in American dairy farming and the spread of 
farm tenancy in dairy regions together tend to emphasize the need 
for exact knowledge concerning the relation between landlord and 
tenant on share-rented dairy farms. The work described in this 
bulletin was undertaken in two representative dairy regions with a 
view to ascertaining the nature of this relationship and determining 
the profits made thereunder by landlord and tenant. 
ILLINOIS 
Fig. 1.— Location of areas in which records were taken. 
10913°— 18— Bull. 
