Oklahoma farmer . e business is found-ed; and while the title to the land mayremain in the name of the landowner, thetenant should be an equal partner in thebusiness of farming. Conditions in thiscountry are especially favorable for -suchan arrangement. For while one-third ofthe land is farmed by tenants, the landgenerally is owned by men who live relation of landowner and tenant be-comes a personal one and the problems ofabsenteeism and concentration of owner-ship have comparatively little significancein this country. Rentals usually are based either upon acash consideration, the t
Oklahoma farmer . e business is found-ed; and while the title to the land mayremain in the name of the landowner, thetenant should be an equal partner in thebusiness of farming. Conditions in thiscountry are especially favorable for -suchan arrangement. For while one-third ofthe land is farmed by tenants, the landgenerally is owned by men who live relation of landowner and tenant be-comes a personal one and the problems ofabsenteeism and concentration of owner-ship have comparatively little significancein this country. Rentals usually are based either upon acash consideration, the tenant paying afixed cash rental, or upon a share of thecrop. The former plan could hardly beconsidered co-operative, except that theform of lease may permit the landownerto advise, or even to dictate largely as tothe crops to be planted. In this respectthere may be co-operation. Most tenantsprefer share tenancy because there is lessrisk. Most landowners, too, I think pre-fer crop rent. If crops are good and prices. high more rent is receivedthan would be from cashrental. If crops are poorand prices low, it is diffi-cult or impossible to col-lect the rent, so the land-owner loses in both kind of share ten-ancy is co-operativein that the value ofthe land offsets acertain part of thelabor of the tenant,and besides the participation of the land-owner in managing the farm is said to bethe chief reason for the success of sharetenancy in this country. I shall not attempt to describe the num-erous methods of letting land for sharerental. They vary from the simple method,where one farmer has more land than hewants to tend and rents a part of it to hisneighbor, to the more complex methods,where the landowner supplies a house,barn, garajn, some pasture land, and otherimprovements. Improved Buildings are Non-Productive. Strange to say, land usually brings thesame crop rent without improvements aswith them. One large landowner in Kan-sas with whom I was discussing this sub-ject to
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