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than his proportional share of the cereals, and especially is this 

 true where the acreages are considerable. In New York the 

 tenants grow 50 per cent more than their share of the wheat ; in 

 Pennsylvania 75 per cent more ; in New Jersey 76 per cent more. 

 Corn and oats are grown in similar, though somewhat smaller, 

 proportions by the tenants, and the same may be said of hay 

 and forage. The important wheat-growing districts of the North 

 Atlantic states comprise about 21 counties in Pennsylvania, 12 in 

 New York, and 8 in New Jersey. These counties for the most 

 part show high land values, yet in neither case are they the highest 

 of the state. The percentages of tenancy, however, are higher 

 than for the highest groups on the basis of value, being 30.6 per 

 cent in Pennsylvania, 27.4 per cent in New Jersey, and 25.2 per 

 cent in New York. With very few exceptions the greatest acreages 

 of other cereals are found in the same counties in which the 

 greatest acreages of wheat are grown ; but the farms growing the 

 major part of the wheat are larger than those producing the major 

 part of the other cereals, indicating that the most extensive type 

 of farming practised in this section is in connection with wheat 

 growing. Thus again is emphasized the coincidence of tenancy 

 with farming of an extensive sort. 



The best agricultural showing made by the North Atlantic 

 states is in dairy farming, and therefore the relation of this indus- 

 try to tenancy is of particular interest. It may sound a little strange 

 to call dairying an extensive type of agriculture, but the term is a 

 relative one ; and, speaking relatively, dairying as usually carried 

 on in the North Atlantic states may be so designated. It is at 

 least a much more extensive type of agriculture than fruit and 

 vegetable growing, both of which are very prevalent in these states. 

 In the North Central states dairying is carried on mainly by 

 owners, but in contrast to this the tenants of the North Atlantic 

 states have charge of many more than their proportional number 

 of dairy farms. The force of this, however, is not so evident in 

 the number of farms reporting as in the number of dairy cows ; of 

 these the tenants reported in 1900 more than 25 per cent in excess 

 of their proportional allotment. The prevalence of tenancy among 

 dairy farmers is further emphasized within the districts where 



