TENANCY IN THE NORTH CENTRAL STATES 5 i ; 



It is in the older states that conditions are more uniform and 

 apparently more stable, and it is in these states that values and 

 tenancy seem unmistakably to be traveling the same road, and at 

 a somewhat similar rate of speed. / 



The trend of tenancy for the group during the past thirty 

 years is shown in the table : 



PER CENT OF TENANCY, 1880-1910 



Throughout this period the relation between value of land and 



the rate of tenancy has been substantially as shown for 1910 



above. It will be noticed that the slight decline in tenancy for 



uri during the past u-n years is the only instance of the 



kind occurring in the group during the thirty years. 



The (.lose relationship between value of land and rate of ten- 

 ancy is even more strikingly brought out by a comparison of 

 groups of counties within a state than in the comparison of one 

 state with another. Within the state of Illinois, in a block of 

 fourteen enmities where farms are reported at 150 or more per 

 acre, there was ten years ago 50.6 per cent of tenancy. In these 

 counties at the present census there is 54.7 per cent of tenancy. 

 only is the amount of tenancy high, but it is increasing 

 rapidly, more rapidly than in other parts of the state. In another 

 block of nineteen counties, in which the value of farms is less 

 than $50 , in 1900 there was 2/.S JUT cent of ter. 



