[17].,Yearbook1950,,however,-yearannualaverages(1949-51)ofthecropareaformarginalcropsusedhereafterarelessdramaticthantwo-yearannualaverages(1950-51),sincethesharerestrictionbeganinmid-1949.Seetable3forannualchanges.[18].A"t",thattherewasnosystematicandsignificantdifferencebetweenthebeforeandafterhectareyields,wasrejectedatthea=.,asisimpliedbythehypothesisofincreasedfarmingintensity.[19].Notethatforitems16to20(table7),"harmful"spilloversoncropsofthesameseasonalmargin.[20].Informationonthegrowingtimerequiredformostvegetablesisusuallyinambiguoustermssuchas"twotothreemonths."Thatiswhywecitehereonlytheextremecasesforwhichthedemarcationofgrowingtimeisclear.[21].,"TheEffectsofPopulationPressureandSeasonalLaborSurplusonthePatternandIntensityofAgricultureinTaiwan,"(mimeographed,1964),::

Horticulturalcropsgrowondryland,…,thatiswhytherulesofrentalsharerestrictioncouldnotapplytothem.…Ourdecisionfortenancyinhorticulturalcropswastoleavethecontractsastheyhadbeen.…[1]

Asshownintable3,theharvestedareaforhorticulturalcropsdeclined.Intable8,-threecropslisted,theplantyieldforallbutfourcropsdecreased.[2]Bothobservationsmaybeinterpretedasfollows:Underthesharerestrictionimposedonothercropsandthecorrespondingreallocationofresources,,,,,however,thedecreaseinthelandareaharvestedimpliesthatthemarginalproductoflanddecreased(i.e.,shifteddownward).This,togetherwiththedecreaseinplantyield,impliesthatnonlandresourceinputsdeclined,,theobservationsareconsistentwiththeimplicationthatthemarginalproductoflandinhorticulturewaslowerthanthatofothercropsunderthesharerestriction,andthatthemarginalproductsoffarmingresourcesotherthanlandwerelowerintheseothercropsthaninhorticulture.[1].Chen,RecordsofTaiwanLandReform,.[2].Apparently,thenumberofplantsperhectareisnotfixed,butwelackinformationontheyieldperhectare.A"t"testwasrunontheobservationsofplantyieldsbeforeandafterthesharerestriction,,thattherewasnosystematicandsignificantdifferencebetweenthebeforeandafterplantyields,wasrejectedatthea=.,derivedfromthetheoryofsharetenancywiththeaddedshareconstraint,,andthemarginalproductsoftenantinputswerelower,thanthoseofsimilarresourcesemployedelsewhere.orgbiningthefindingsofchapters7and8,letmesummarize: