RENTERS' AND LANDOWNERS SPECIAL
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inas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 18 86, AT RALEIGH, N, C.
Vol. XXXI. No. 37.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1916
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ON this page one year ago we discussed -Three Essentials: Good
Houses, Longer Leases, Intelligent Tenants." This time we are
going to turn this phrase around and talk first about intelligent
tenants...' '.. ; .. ' "
Just as Mr. f . B. Parker said recently that we need to discriminate
ioElor LaiiowiCFS
needless risks, but you know tnSnv cases you can safely enough
let him haye money-at 6, 8, or ifrpjfyjijrjijid save him from paying
five times as much interest in the form?ie pricey." And such
action will give a worthy tenant. new heartshis work and bind him
to you as a real partner, " ;
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FARM SCENE IN ENGLAND
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Our Cousins Across the Water Long Ago Learned That Soil Fertility Is of Primary Importance, and Every Farm Lease Is Made With This Fact in Mind
between good and sorry farm laborers, so we need to discriminate be
tween good, intelligent tenants and sorry, incompetent ones, "Thars
more in the man than thar is in the land, V as Sidney Lanier put it.
In fact, shiftless, incompetent tenants in ten years' time may reduce
your acre yields to fifteen bushels of- corn or 150 pounds of lint
cotton, whereas intelligent tenants, properly
encouraged, might carry the yields beyond
a bale per acre on cotton and 50 bushels per
acre on corn. Which will you choose?
It's.not simply a case of saying which you
will choose, however. The situation also
calls for some doing, and here are four
things to do. They will help you get and
keep the intelligent tenants- who will tenrich
your land and you instead of the shiftless, in
competent tenants who may actually injure
your land $2 worth for every $1 they pay
you in rent.
First of all, aim at longer leases. Get a
renter you know and can trust and rent to him
0r3ree' ftye or ten years instead of one.
Wouldn't you take a keener interest in en
riching and beautifying the place under such
conditions? Very well; so will your renter.
Second, help your tenant about getting
supplies. We don't suggest that you. take
DON'T FAIL TO READ
A Success Talk by Dr. Warren H. Wilson
More Agricultural Knowledge Needed
by Both Landlords and Tenants . .
Better Rental Systems for Landlord and
Tenant . . . . . . . '
Two, Ways to Rent ; . . . .
A Suggested Form of Rental Contract .
Accumulating Personal Property the
Renter's Way Out . . . .
Let Our Cotton Farmers Corner the Mar-
ket . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Study of the Tenant Problem . . .
Teaching the Youngsters Manners ...
A Trip to Rowan and Cabarrus . . .
A Landlord and Tenant's. Compensation
and Dilapidation Act . . . .
A Story With a Moral-for Renters . .
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Third, beautify the' tenant house. Our "renters deserve better
houses; and dissatisfaction of wives and children at this point has driven
from the farms thousands of the best class of intelligent, industrious,
white families. The house needn't be large or expensive, but it can be
i painted or at least whitewashed, the roof kept in good condition, and
the yard glorified with trees, vines, and flow
ers. Two or three grapevines, a pecan, a
crape myrtle, and some fruit trees planted
this fall may pay for themselves ten times
over in the next ten years.
Finally, take an interest in your ten
ant's social life. A little friendly human
interest here will be appreciated more than
money. If you have a number ofwhite ten
ants in your neighborhood, try to get other
white tenants so as to get a more satisfactory
community life. Letters from renters in this
issue show how much concerned 5 they are
about this matter. And then get the renter
into your Farmer's Union, get the renter's
family interested in some church, and en
courage the children to go to school, j
Good tenants mean good farms; poor ten-,
ants mean poor farms. Take the steps that
are needed to get the right sort on your
place.
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