TENANCY IN THE NORTH CENTRAL STATES 511 



for beef and for the dairy, there are sheep and swine ; but in 

 addition to these more ordinary .kinds of farming, we find the 

 tobacco farms, truck farms, and the so-called "clover-seed " farms, 

 besides lands still to be made into farms. In Illinois the crop 

 raiiL, r c is a wide one. Some parts of the state grow as much corn 

 per square mile as is grown anywhere ; some counties are outside 

 the main corn belt. In parts of the state clover and timothy are 

 found on almost every farm ; in other parts these crops are 

 almost unknown. 



With all these conditions varying so widely, it would be strange 

 were tenancy a constant factor, and it is not. Indeed, it would 

 hardly be possible for it to run through a wider range, since it 

 nnw varies by individual counties from less than I per cent of 

 all farms in some to 83 per cent in others. Over two-fifths of 

 all land of the United States rented to tenant farmers is found 

 in this group of twelve states, and these farms have a value 

 greater than that of the other three-fifths of such farms. 



VALUE OF LAND AND PER CENT OF TENANCY 



t fact to be noticed is the close parallelism U-t \\vrn tin- 



valiu- of land and the proportion of tenancy. The above table 



- the value of land per acre, and the per cent of u-nam-y. 



ported in the Thirteenth Censu icr \\ith the rank 



ach. 



