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significance of tenancy in the South is not minimized, however, but 

 rather augmented by the fact that great numbers of tenants operate 

 small farms. On the basis of acreage the East North Central division 

 is nearly abreast with the South Atlantic division in the percentage 

 of tenancy, while the West North Central states stand between the 

 East and West South Central groups. On the whole, the percentages 

 of tenancy are much more nearly uniform in the various divisions 

 when the statistics are based upon acreage than when based upon 

 farms. 



TABLE n 



PERCENTAGE OF FARM ACREAGE OPERATED UNDER VARIOUS FORMS OF TENURE, UNITED STATES, 



igoo-igio* 



* Census, igoo, V, 308; igio, V, 114. 



Because of the large size of their farms, the proportion of farm 

 land operated by part owners and by managers is much larger than 

 the number of such operators would indicate. In 1910 the part 

 owners operated three-fifths as much farm land as the tenants. They 

 hired nearly half of this land. Counting both the land hired by part 

 owners and the land hired by tenants, the data indicate that in 1910 

 the leasing of farm land was most prevalent in the North Central 

 states. 1 



1 The individual states in which the percentages of farm land operated under 

 lease were highest are as follows: in 1900, Delaware, 59.5; Illinois, 45 2; and 

 Maryland, 43.2; in 1910, Oklahoma, 63.1; Delaware, 52.8; and Illinois, 51.0. 



