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not in the same county, had homes very near 

 their rented farms. This was notably the case 

 with farms located near county lines. Such 

 owners can hardly be classed as non-residents, 

 and the very small per cent, of rented farms 

 owned by non-resident landlords would have been 

 still further reduced if it had been practicable to 

 exclude such owners. 



"The Western division had the smallest pro- 

 portion of rented farms whose owners resided in 

 the county where their rented farms were located. 

 .... The South Central and South Atlantic divi- 

 sions had the largest proportion of owners resid- 

 ing in the county where their rented farms were 

 located. . . . The North Central division had the 

 largest, and the Western the next largest, propor- 

 tion of rented farms with owners residing outside 

 of the state." 1 



Eighty per cent, of the owners of rented farms 

 in the United States owned but one rented farm 

 each, and fifty-two per cent of the rented farms 

 were owned by persons who owned but one rented 

 farm. The situation in this regard is made clear 

 by the following tables, which show the per cent, 

 of the number of rented farms and of the number 

 of owners of rented farms classified by the number 

 of farms owned by one person : 2 



twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Vol. V, p. 

 Ixxxvii. 



2 Ibid., p. Ixxxviii. 



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