. Agricultural economics. Agriculture -- Economic aspects United States; Land tenure. 290 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS of very high land values in the North Central states. Under this system the landlord receives one-third the grain and some- times he receives all the straw and corn stalks and stands none of the expense of production. The landlord receiving a third of the produce usually furnishes no part of the operating equipment of the farm. In many instances the tenant pays a cash rent for the house in which he lives and for pasture for his Kve stock. In many other cases fields only are rented f
. Agricultural economics. Agriculture -- Economic aspects United States; Land tenure. 290 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS of very high land values in the North Central states. Under this system the landlord receives one-third the grain and some- times he receives all the straw and corn stalks and stands none of the expense of production. The landlord receiving a third of the produce usually furnishes no part of the operating equipment of the farm. In many instances the tenant pays a cash rent for the house in which he lives and for pasture for his Kve stock. In many other cases fields only are rented for one-third the crop. The tenant lives on the land which he may have bought or leased and takes two- thirds the grain and leaves the roughage on the farm where grown. Where the " third " system exists with respect to grain crops, the hay crop is usually shared half and half. Wliere land is let for one-third the crop, the landlord usually controls in detail the kind of crops to be grown on each field. Beyond this he leaves the tenant to do much as he pleases. The two-fifths system. In the Corn Belt the two-fifths system has been an intermediate stage in the rise of share rents from. Figure 20 one-third to one-half the crop. This system differs from the " third" system primarily in the fact that the landlord receives. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Taylor, Henry C. (Henry Charles), 1873-1969. New York : Macmillan
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