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Show RENT PLANS FOR NEXT YEA! Terms and Conditions of Contrac Should Be Very Carefully Considered Consid-ered by All Parties Interested. Even now tenants and owners ar making their rent plans for next yea: The terms and conditions of the coi tract should be very carefully consit ered by both parties, for a wron agreement may mean loss to botl Figures gathered on 669 farms in farm management survey in northeas Missouri by 0. R. Johnson of the Mi: eouri agricultural experiment statio show that the average tenant in th area surveyed made $138 greater ne income than the cash tenant, and tha a share of the crop paid the lan owner 1.3 per cent higher interest o his investment than was received b the owner who rented for cash. Th total net Income of the average tei ant who rented all his land on shar basis was $548, the owner receivin 4.9 per cent. While the cash rente made $410 and paid a rent which ri turned the owner 3.6 per cent. Th tenant who rented his crop land for share and his grass land for cas made a net Income of $507 and th owner received 6.9 per cent on hi investment. The land owner Is better able t bear all or part of the risk of floo or drought than the average tenan and the -Jiare rent plan throws pai of the r 7k upon the tenant if he I financial-? responsible. If not, th owner may lose part or all of his ren but he usually takes no further risk; r Land continuously rented for cas 0 is found to be more rapidly exhauste than the farm operated by the owne or rented for shares. Cash crops must be relied upo , much more exclusively by the amoun and must pay a fixed cash rent as s curing money for use ln paying stor bills. As the country grows older cas rent will probably become more prevt lent and desirable. We may perhap approach the present condition c Engand, where the tenants ar wealthy enough to stand a bad yea or two without becoming bankrupi Their long leases, running for fiftee or twenty years, give them good 0I porttinities to balance up bad season with good ones. Besides this, the fa that the owner takes a large shar of his income n the form of socia prestige attached to owning land an the renting and other privileges coi nected with lt eilBbe (he t(,nail( , get It for a cash rental amoimtin often only to ,wo per cen( of ,he owc er s Investment |