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Pig. 113. — This map shows the relativp extent of tenancy from the standpoint of 

 Improved land. The principal areas having over 60 per cent of the improve<i land 

 operated by tenants are the richest portiohs of the Corn Belt and of the Cotton Belt 

 (see Figs. 22 and 24). Thes<> are our most productive areas fsce Fijr. 21), in which many 

 of the farmers or planters can afford to retire to town and be .supported by the rent of 

 their farms. The small proportion of improved land operated by tenants in the hills of 

 New England, in the southern Appalachian Mountains, on the sandy lower coastal plain 

 of the South, and in the arid areas of the West is noteworthy. 



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