FARM TENANCY 



Map of Ohio showing the Valuation of Farm Lands per Acre, by Counties, as 

 reported by the decennial board of appraisers in 1900. 



the values of land and the per cent, of tenancy. That is, the highest 

 per cent, of tenancy is to be found on the most fertile land. It is 

 not because tenancy tends to increase the fertility of the land or 

 to increase its valuation, because such is not the case, but rather 

 the opposite. But it is due to the fact that the more fertile lands 

 are the best investment for capital and are more eagerly held as 

 investments than any other farm lands. In the fertile counties of the 

 state, where the percentage of tenancy is high, farms that have been 

 inherited by children who have gone to the city to live have been held as 

 investments. They are readily rented, so that they will yield a fair 

 return on the investment, and at the same time the sentiment of 

 keeping the old homestead is observed. In this way they are rented 

 out for cash, or a share of the crops produced, and they thus pass into 

 tenancy. On the less fertile lands of the state, such as are found 

 in the southeastern part, the per cent, of the farms held by 



