Bulletin of the of Agriculture . Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER April 10,1918 A STUDY OF SHARE-RENTED DAIRY FARMS INGREEN COUNTY, WIS., AND KANE COUNTY, ILL. By E. A. Boeger, Agriculturist. CONTENTS. Systems of share-renting. Summary of results Regions studied 4 in duty of landlord and of 6 Factors of efficiency 8 Relation of farm practices to profits 12 The great increase in American dairy farming and the spread offarm tenancy in dairy regions together tend to emphasize the needfor exact knowledge concerning the relation between landlord and
Bulletin of the of Agriculture . Washington, D. C. PROFESSIONAL PAPER April 10,1918 A STUDY OF SHARE-RENTED DAIRY FARMS INGREEN COUNTY, WIS., AND KANE COUNTY, ILL. By E. A. Boeger, Agriculturist. CONTENTS. Systems of share-renting. Summary of results Regions studied 4 in duty of landlord and of 6 Factors of efficiency 8 Relation of farm practices to profits 12 The great increase in American dairy farming and the spread offarm tenancy in dairy regions together tend to emphasize the needfor exact knowledge concerning the relation between landlord andtenant on share-rented dairy farms. The work described in thisbulletin was undertaken in two representative dairy regions with aview to ascertaining the nature of this relationship and determiningthe profits made thereunder by landlord and ILLINOIS Fig. 1.—Location of areas in which records were °—18—Bull. 603 2 BULLETIN 603, U. S, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Each of the regions selected for this study is a comparatively olddairy section. The one is in Green Count}7, Wis., where dairying wasfirst started for the manufacture of Swiss cheese, and the other aboutElgin, 111., where the first impetus to dairying was the establish-ment of butter factories (see fig. 1). In the former region, thesupplying of milk to condenseries is now encroaching on the cheeseindustry, while in the latter region nearly all of the milk is eithersold for condensation or to the Chicago market. The material for this study was. obtained from 84 farm manage-ment survey records taken in the Wisconsin region in cooperationwith the State Agricultural College and Experiment Station, andfrom 59 records taken in the Illinois region, all for the crop year1915. Reference is made also herein to some of the facts obtainedfrom 117 survey recor
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