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Tenant Farmers “Tractored Out”     Before tractors, there were limits to farming. Farming with horses meant that you could only work until the horses got tired. Days in the field were limited to eight to 10 hours. Somewhere around five acres per horse had to be set aside simply to grow the food for

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SOUTHERN TENANT FARMERS UNIONBibliographyDavid E. Conrad, The Forgotten Farmers: The Story of Sharecroppers in the New Deal (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1965). Sheila Manes, Pioneers and Survivors: Oklahomas Landless Farmers, in Oklahoma: New Views of the Forty-Sixth State, ed. Anne Hodges Morgan and H. Wayn

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Encyclopædia Britannica Subscribe Log In · Join In the News Spotlight Demystified Quizzes Galleries Lists Search Click here to search Tenant farmingagriculture Written By: The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica Last Updated: 7-20-1998 See Article History Related Topics métayage collectivization intensiv

A tenant farmer is one who resides on land owned by a landlord . Tenant farming is an agricultural production system in which landowners contribute their land and often a measure of operating capital and management while tenant farmers contribute their labor along with at times varying amounts of capital and management