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BULLETIN 603, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
for each colt. The receipts from sales of all farm products are 
divided half and half, excepting sometimes those from fowls, which 
frequently are owned in a limited number exclusively by the tenant. 
All stock is fed from grain and hay owned in common. 
Dairying in this region is of the intensive type. As will be seen 
later, few cows are raised and the calves usually are sold almost as 
soon as the mother's milk is marketable. 
Fifty-nine records were taken in the region about Elgin, mostly 
in Kane County, for the crop year 1915. The data thus procured 
will be discussed in these pages, and reference will be made also to 
the data secured from 147 share-rented farms for the crop year 
1912 by the Illinois Agricultural College, and loaned to the Federal 
department for use in this connection. 
Figure 1 shows the locations in which these records were taken. 
VARIATION IN DUTY OF LANDLORD AND OF TENANT. 
Considerable variation was encountered in the duty of landlord 
and of tenant under the terms of the various contracts found in 
vogue (see Table I). 
Table I. — Items furnished by landlord and by tenant on lJ^S half-share rented 
dairy farms in Wisconsin and Illinois. 
[Figures show number of farms on which each specified item was furnished.] 
Item. 
Green County, Wis. (84 
farms). 
Kane County, HI. (59 farms). 
By 
landlord. 
By 
tenant. 
Half and 
half. 
By 
landlord. 
By 
tenant. 
Half and 
half. 
Horses 
- 
1 
3 
3 
51 
31 
67 
70 
16 
11 
81 
32 
2 
65 
69 
55 
10 
59 
56 
Machinery 
3 
Cows 
49 
26 
59 
3 
10 
Grass seed 
1 
51 
19 
15 
25 
72 
33 
Road tax 
Twine 
2 
2 
21 
13 
54 
Thrashing 
57 
Chickens 
4 
2 
1 
3 
34 
Milk cans 1 
37 
1 On the other 6 farms in the Illinois region the milk cans were furnished by the milk buyer. 
It will be noted from the table that on the farms of the Wisconsin 
group the horses are owned mostly by the tenants and on those of 
the Illinois group they are all owned by the tenants. Likewise, the 
implements and machinery are owned mostly by the tenant, but to 
a greater extent on the farms of the Illinois group than those of the 
Wisconsin group. 
The greatest variation in the division of expenses is in regard to 
cows and the payment of the farm road tax. In the Wisconsin 
group only three of the landlords own cows, and they are owned 
half-and-half on 81 farms, while in the Illinois group they are owned 
by the landlord on 49 farms and half-and-half on only 10 farms. As 
