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_ cultivated by owners 74.4 per cent., say three-fourths to one-fourt! 
-. «rented. Even this proportion of rentals is more apparent than rea’, 
= as 47 per cent. of all are found in the cotton States, arising from the ~ 
counting by census enumerators of individual laborers or ‘‘freedsa 
Pe men,” to whom sections of plantations were distributed for cultiya- — — 
_ ‘tion on shares, simply because they refused to work for wages and re 
ae __ insisted on a semblance of independent management; and thus a 
~ single farm, not to be alienated from its single owner or evendivided _- 
_ _ by any permanent lines of division, was reckoned as half a dozen — 
farms or more. Very few of these individual laborers on shares, 
--_ working under various terms of contract, can be considered inde- _ 
_ pendent renters of farms. They are rather temporary tenant-work- — 
; sf _ ers of fractional parts of farms, and can not be fairly cited in proof — 
- . of the gradual decadence of cultivation of lands by farm proprie- My 
~~. tors. It is an available form of cultivation, by paying wages in ~~ 
_ produce instead of cash, with a certain degree of independence CS 
<\ the freedmen, and a measure of protection to the farmer against the 
~~ unreliability of the laborer. ' Minas 
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2, The following is the census subdivision of farms by tenure: Ean 
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i A is Farms cultivated | Tenant sf mm 
Aj by owner. cereal Seite 
Sections. Total farms. | : 2 cole 
Number. | Per ct.| Cash rental.| Shares.  ~ 
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eereean Now, Pinelands \ ee) os. soe haces ee ok 207, 232 189,572) 91.5 | 10, 2 7,480°% 15 
wi y Northern Middle..... BUSS PSS CIE Ao ree 488, 907 395, 275 80.8 | 38, 781 54,857 A Fe 
2 Southern Middle...............0...-.. 00-0! 167,783 | 116,550 | 69.5 17, 781 33, 452 
3 Spank Atlanties=) 60s. hs. 2o/ 26s aes bee: 413,537 | 244,181 | 59.0 52,733 116, 633 
: ; SOV ES eRe aR ea Ane eae Ss 7/20, 195 | 445, 130 61.5 88, 268 188,797 a 
ne Western: °.. 0... 0. ...is.0. eee 1,214,400 | 956,881 | 78.8 73, 886 183,633 
4 RAS -NMISSISSIDONs 7 -ek a2 spicata seee 699, 766 553, 608 79.1 | 36, 066 110,092. - 
3 (ECTS OU act his SPR EAE ese Sd 52,555 | 44,016 | 82.2 | £013 5526 
es ithe Wernitonies an. eee oh eae l sees 43, 532 | 41, 093 94.4 609 1,830. = 
A Rea lS  So CO a | 4,008, 907 | 2, 984, 306 | 74.4 | 322, 857 702, 244 | 
Boss. Aside from the peculiar and temporary tenures of the Southern © 
“pnt States, about four-fifths of the farms are cultivated by their owners... ~ 
ae There is comparatively little difference in the several geographical’ — 
-. divisions, except that there is less tenant-holding in New Englandthan 
elsewhere, there being but 17,660 farms held by any system of ten-— | 
antry in the six States, and a very small proportion in the Rocky © = 
Mountain region. 2 
The number of farms in each class, with the percentage of all cul- © 
tivated by owners, for each State, is given in detail: 3 
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| Farms cultivated | Farms cultivated by 
y i by owner. tenant. eM 
ye ; States and Territories. Farms. | : > a 
| Number. | Per ct. Cash rental.| Shares. 
Mimi Wee poo sw peepee ee Sone tea see 64,309 | 61,528} 96 | 1, 628 1 et Ae 
fs New Hampshire.........-. ; Ie Sas ee 02 os | 32,181 | 29,566 | 92 1, 237 1,378 “y 
WELIMOND soot Fee pices ae pred ee a ec | 35, 522 | 30, 760 Shu 2,164 2, 598 
AV ASSAGHUSELES 2A hee Saree pee oc tre ae 38, 406 | 35,266 | 92 + 2, 292 48 
sh ouesslanGd ye ees. enote sercte wince kate c/s) meee oe 6, 216 4, 980 80 989 240. es 
Pay CONNECLCUL ae ants Se hectic hie de tiara 30,598 | 27,472 | 90» | 1, 920 1, 206 7 
INGE EY ORIC Fer «Sanya Beers ce ack Coste bale slate omice } 241,058 |} 201,186 | 8 | 18, 124 2 . 
IN Ewa ersey. cece tal bo ae anne aoe 34, 307 | 25,869 | 75° | 3, 608 4,830 - 
Panmsy hana) le. Nae. Shale Ate ot 213,542 | 168,220| 7 17,049| 28,273. | 
Malay ATe J. ce eee ee aha ene foc | 8,749 | 5,041 | 58 511 3,197.5” 
Tag eis ON a AM pep ca A a | 40,517} _- 27,978} 69 | 3, 878 8, 661 4 
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