Tenancy in the Southern States

Benjamin H. Hibbard

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1913, vol. 27, issue 3, 482-496

Abstract: Number of farms and farm area of the South; size of farms in North and South, 482. — Value of the southern farm contrasted to that of the North; value of equipment, 483. — Tenancy conditions affected by the negro, 484. — Terminology on tenancy different in South from that in the North, 485. — Percentage of tenancy by States, 188O–1910; tenancy and colored farmers predominate in the cotton belt, 486. — Negroes gain over white farmers in possession of farms, 487. — Changes in proportion of cash and share tenancy; cash and share tenancy in relation to intensivity of cultivation, 488. — Tenancy and its relation to value of land, 490. — Relations to character of crops, to amount of live stock, to value of buildings, 491. — The negro tenant in the white districts, 492. — The "Renters' Union of America," 494. — Length of lease, 495. — Forces which will counteract tenancy, 496.

Date: 1913
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