RENTERS' AND LANDLORDS' sPrriAi
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A Farm nad Home Weekly
Ihe Urohnas. Virginia. Geor&x. and Florida
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VOL aaa. nu. uivlath, on,r 1 JCilVlJDlLK H, 1V15. V
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Three Essentials: Good Houses; Long Leases; Intelligent Tenants
TROM start to finish this issue of The PrnorpcciirA Parmar io unA
H with articles sure to help renter and landowner understand each
other better and work together for greater profits to both. On page
13 we are pointing out some of the chief lessons for renters, and here
we wish to remind landlords of the three profitable lessons for them.
er's plain statement of facts by F D. T. on page 8; then read Prof.
Massey's report and others telling how longer leases produce better
results, and decide for yourself which system you will adopt. And
whatever others mav nr mav tint Hn Mr T anrilnrrl
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system in your own case. You can find a good renter and say to him,
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DIVERSIFIED FARMING WITH COTTON BELT TENANTS
This photograph was taken la the wheat field of Hon. E. L. Dauffhtridee, Edffecombe County, N. C.-one of the finest cotton countiei to thVyorld. HeU a "many crop ipecialist," ai Mr.
S. R. WinteV puta iL and ihl SSSSSm YeA fis cultivated acres yield two crops annually, his.year's recordshows as follows: cotton, 850 acres; corn, 260; wheat. 120; peas, 100; oats. 76j
Pfanuts. &!ti$i Th?se crops not only give him a net profit of $10,000 a year, but with such diversification and rotation,
nis land also stays rich. -
First of all, Better Houses for Tenants. It is really remarkable
how many landlords and tenants in their letters have laid emphasis on
this point. The better class of tenants, as Mr. Markham says; is the
only sort worth having; and. you cant get the better class unless you
wuvme, not fine houses or large houses, of
course, but houses tHat are in good repair
and without the ramshackle ' hideousness
hat now characterizes many such places.
You can whitewash if you can't paint, and a
ew quick-growing shade trees, roses, crape
fcyrtles, grape vines and fruit trees will
cost little. s . .
Next, the Long Lease. As one corres
pondent, well reminds us, neither landowner
or renter can prosper on poor land; both
n Prsper on rich land. And of all the
inventions ever devised by the wit of
iV makin rich land poor and keep
and P00r, and f or makinS Doth landlord
has P0r at the time, nothing
nw?Ver been devised equal to the one-year
rentinor system a-j . . , t.i.
' thp rv 1 -"u me oouin is prouauiy,
! e 0nly Part of thft tAinU wnrM ; -
4 'Well, let's make a ,five-yeaf (or three-year) agreement. I will feel
like putting the place in better fix and you will feel more like taking
care of it and building it up."
THe third essential is, Intelligent Tenants. Good tenant
houses and fair renting conditions .will
help you get them, as our articles by
Messrs. Massey, Mull and Barton all make
clear, and when you get tnem they will
make more for themselves and for land
owners than ignorant, unprogressive ten
ants can ever do.- We haven't yet begun
to realize the value of land in the South.
When we do, we shail probably wake up
to the fact that the ignorant tenant fre
quently damages soil and buildings more
in a year than his rent money amounts to.
Decide for yourself if (1) good houses,
(2) longer leases and (3) intelligent renters
are not the rules for successassuming, of
course, that the landlord lives on his farm
and practices a diversification of crops,
two other essentials so manifestly neces
sary that we have simply taken them for
DONT FAIL TO READ-
A Neighborhood of Happy Tenant Farmers 12
An Ideal System in South Carolina . . 7
An Operi Letter to the White Renters of
the South . . . . . 13
A Rental Contract Providing for Diversifi
cation and Rotation . . . . " .6
A Renting System That Makes Men Mil
lionaires 4
How One Landlord Doubled Crop Yields
in Five Years jj
How to Help the Unambitious Tenant o
Longer Leases to Promote Better Farming 5
Look After "Scab" Farmers -and Then
After Your Congressman . ; . . l2
Nominal Land Tax Promotes Absentee
Landlordism . . . . :
Where the Renters Speak Then- Mmds .
granted.
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