. . . "(2) Subject to subsection (4), a landlord may take and seize standing crops as a distress for arrears of rent, and may cut, gather, make, cure, carry and lay up the same, when ripe, in the barns or other proper place on the demised premises and, if there is no barn or proper place on the demised premises, then in any other barn or proper place which the landlord hires or otherwise procures for tha" . .