Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-08-17
MARATHON COUNTY FARMS ARE OWNED
NOT RENTED; A BIG LOCAL POINT

from poultry or WOrk STOCK, ali VI
which go to the tenant
When farms are rented for share
of crops and stock, the lease provides
whether the tenants work stock may
or may not be fed from the grain and
hay owned in common and fed to
other stock. No exceptions were
found to the method as outlined here.
Under the renting system according
to which the landlord received two
thirds of the crops and which was
found only on a few Kansas farms,
the landlord furnishes everything but
the man power, that being the ten
ants contribution. Under this sys-
tenn the tenant receives one-third of
the grain only, while the landlord re-
ceives two-thirds of the proceeds from
the sales of grain and of proceeds
from the sale of stock.
A few of the farms in each locality
excepting the North Dakota area, were
found to be renting for cash. On cash
rented farms with considerable alfal-
ia the tenants were satisfied, but on
farms without this crop they intend
ed to give up their leases.
In general under all of the six sys-
TENS OF renting, described above, the
landlord furnishes land, buildings,
and grass seed, and pays the real-es-
tate tax. He also supplies material
for the repair of buildings and fences,
and usually employs any skilled labor
needed for making repairs. In all of
these localities, however, land was
frequently rented without buildings,
and on some of the Nebraska farms
! visited the tenant owned all of the
farm structures and fences except the
dwelling, the barn, and the windmill
On the other rented farms visited in
Nebraska the tenant sometimes paid
a part or all of the real-eState tax.
Under all Of these share-rent sys-
TENS except the one according to
which both stock and crop receipts are
divided and the landlord gets two
thirds of the crop, all productive
stock is owned by the tenant, who
gets all the income derived therefrom.
/ However, the amount of such stock is
too frequently limited by his acreage
of pasture and hay land, by the
amount of corn or rough feed he is
allowed to grow, and by the shelter
that is provided for such stock.
On the share-rented farms the use
of hal land was usually paid for in
cash but was sometimes given free to
the tenant. Frequently it was rented
for a share OF the crop, and in some
cases there was no hay land on the
farm Pasture was sometimes free to
the tenant, but in many cases was
paid for in cash. Sometimes the farm
pasture was used in common by both
landlord and tenant, and In other
cases there was no pasture.
Several minor factors not mention
ed heretofore exert an important in
fuence in the relation Of landlord and
tenant. Among these are the distance
from the farm to market, the value of
| the land, and the value of the farm
buildings.
In the Kansas area the average dis
lance from the market to the farms
visited was AS miles; in the Nebras-
ka area 3.6 miles; in the South Da-
kota area "A miles; in the North Da-
kota area miles; and in the Mime
sofa area sc miles. Very few farms
were more than miles from the mar
ket. The share of the crop given in
no case appears to differ on account
of the distance to market, except that
the average distance to market of the
farms renting for two-fifths share is
less than the average distance of
those renting for one-third share.
In both the Kansas and Nebraska
areas there were more verbal than
written leases In South Dakota writ
ten and verbal leases were about
equal in number and in North Dako-
ia and Minnesota most leases were
written. There was a greater per-
centage of parent landlords in Kansas,
Nebraska, and South Dakota than in
the other States, and the fact that
their leases were nearly always ver-
bal account in part for the prepond-
erance of this type of agreement in
these States.