In this part of the state (Wagoner County) the farmer who owned the land got one third of the crop for the use of the land and a old house. You had to go to the bank to borrow the money to buy seed and horse feed. but the Bank would not loan all that you needed so the family would have to work for other farmers. To help out. and the farmer farmed his best land him self. The sharecropper got the worst land or by the river that flooded some times. (this was before we had the Dams) By the time the sharecropper gave one third to the farmer and payed the bank back the money he had borrowed . (if he was not flooded out) he was broke. some times he would stay one more year but most of the time he would move on. they payed by the pound for picking cotton 3 or 4 cents a pound a family might make $ 75 to $ 90 a week This was about 1950