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Yearbook of the Department of AgricvZture^ 1921. 



FARMS OPERATED BY WHITE OWNERS 

 NUMBER. JAN. 1. 1920 



NUMBER OF FARMS 

 OPERATED BY WHITE OWNERS 



3,691,866 



Fig. 114. — The largest number of farms operated by white owners is found among the 

 Germans of southeastern Pennsylvania and eastern Wisconsin, the mountaineers of west- 

 ern Pennsylvania and the southern Appalachians, and the pioneers in the West. The 

 fewer number of farm owner-operators in the prairie portion of the Corn Belt, as com- 

 pared with the originally forested portion (see Fig. 7), is noteworthy. This is due, in 

 part, to the larger, consequently fewer, farms (see Fig, 102), and in part to the larger 

 proportion of tenants (see Fig. 112). The thinner distribution in northei'n New England, 

 the upijer Lates region, and the We.st is owing to fewer farms and not to a smaller pro- 

 portion of farms operated by owners (see Fig. 113). 



Fig. 115. — The largest number of farms operated by white tenants is in the upper 

 Piedmont of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, and in the Black Waxy Prairie of 

 Texas. In these districts negroes are less numerous than to the South and East, and 

 the cotton is grown mostly by white farmers. The proportion of tenancy is about the 

 same as in central Illinois. A large number of white tenants are shown in Kentucky 

 and western Ohio, e.specially in the tobacco districts, and throughout the Corn Belt. 

 The small number of tenants, as compared with owners (Fig. 114), is notable in the 

 Hay and Pasture Region and in the West. 



