CONTRACTS USED IN RENTING FARMS ON SHARES. 108 
option. The tenant is often required to market all crop and stock 
products without previous division and to make the proper division 
of proceeds at a specified bank. In one instance on an Indiana peach 
farm the marketing expenses are shared equally. In the central 
wheat belt the tenant may be paid wages for delivering the land- 
lord’s grain to market, or may receive the free use of corn land 
in return for such labor. 
SPRAYING, BLACKSMITHING AND VETERINARY FEES. 
On stock and dairy farms ordinary veterinary fees and the cost 
of testing cows for tuberculosis and of vaccinating hogs for cholera 
are usually shared equally. Blacksmithing expenses are commonly 
borne by the tenant, or may be shared equally. Vitriol and formalin 
used for treating seed grain for smut may be provided by the tenant 
cr may be shared equally. Spray material for use in orchards and 
on other crops is commonly provided jointly, or may rarely all be 
furnished by the tenant or the landlord. The tenant usually sup- 
plies labor for spraying. On celery farms in California the landlord 
supplies all spraying material. 
FEED. 
On stock and dairy farms in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Pennsyl- 
vania, Delaware, Virginia, and elsewhere, the cost of purchased feed 
is usually shared equally. The tenant’s work stock may or may not 
be fed from the common grain and fodder. When stock breeders 
rent stock to farmers on shares the farmers are usually required to 
furnish all necessary feed. 
LABOR. 
The tenant usually supplies all labor, not only his own but also 
hired labor and horse labor. At the opposite extreme, however, there © 
are instances in which the tenant receives wages for his own work, 
while all horse and hired labor is shared equally. On celery farms 
in California, on cotton farms leased to share croppers, on onion 
farms in Massachusetts and New York, and occasionally on general 
tarms in various States, the landlord supplies all horse labor and the 
tenant all hand labor. On a peach farm in Indiana the cost of hired 
labor is borne jointly. The cost of hired labor on dairy farms is 
often shared half and half, as it is also on a sunflower farm in Ken- 
tucky. Landlord and tenant often share equally also the labor of 
picking berries in Louisiana, Maryland, and elsewhere, and occasion- 
ally on general farms in Michigan, New York, South Dakota, and 
_ elsewhere—usually also the labor of picking hops, and occasionally 
the cost of plowing, especially on North Dakota wheat farms. Some- 
