TENANCY IN THE NORTH CENTRAL STATES 513 



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 



1880 



Illinois . . . 

 Iowa . . . . 

 Indiana . . . 

 Ohio . . , . 

 Wisconsin . . 

 Nebraska . . 

 Missouri . . 

 Minnesota . . 

 Kansas . . . 

 South Dakota 

 Michigan . . 

 North Dakota 



314 

 23.8 



237 



193 



9.1 



18.0 



27-3 

 9.2 



16.3 

 3-9 



lO.O 



3-9 



Throughout this period the relation between value of land and 

 the rate of tenancy has been substantially as shown for 19 10 

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

 Missouri during the past ten years is the only instance of the 

 kind occurring in the group during the thirty years. 



The close 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 conrparison of one 

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

 fourteen counties 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. 

 Not 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 per acre, in 1900 there was 27.8 per cent of tenancy, 



