CHAPTER XII 



TENANCY AND LANDOWNERSHIP IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



Less than two-thirds of the whole number of 

 farms in the United States are cultivated by their 

 owners. According to the census for 1900, 

 twenty-two and two-tenths per cent, of the farms 

 were operated by share tenants, thirteen and one- 

 tenth per cent, by cash tenants, one per cent, by 

 managers, nine-tenths per cent, "by owners and 

 tenants," seven and nine-tenths per cent, by "part 

 owners," and fifty-four and nine-tenths per cent, 

 by owners. The following table shows the per- 

 centage of all farms which were operated by these 

 different classes of farmers in the United States 

 and in the geographic divisions of the country, as 

 shown by the census for I9OO. 1 



*N. B. The following instructions to the enumerators ex- 

 plain the significance of the terms used in the following table : 

 "OWNER. If a farm is cultivated by a person who owns 

 all or a part of it, by a man whose wife owns all or a part of 

 it, by a widow or widower, by the heir or heirs thereto, or by 

 the trustees or guardian for such heirs, write 'owner.' For 

 census purposes a settler on government land who has not 

 'proved up,' a person who has bought land on a contract for a 



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