TENANCY IN THE NORTH CENTRAL STATES 511 



for beef and for the dairy, there are sheep and swine ; but in 

 addition to these more ordinary kinds of farming, we find the 

 tobacco farms, truck farms, and the so-called "clover-seed " farms, 

 besides lands still to be made into farms. In Illinois the crop 

 range is a wide one. Some parts of the state grow as much corn 

 per square mile as is grown anywhere ; some counties are outside 

 the main corn belt. In parts of the state clover and timothy are 

 found on " almost every farm ; in other parts these crops are 

 almost unknown. 



With all these conditions varying so widely, it would be strange 

 were tenancy a constant factor, and it is not. Indeed, it would 

 hardly be possible for it to run through a wider range, since it 

 now varies by individual counties from less than 1 per cent of 

 all farms in some to 83 per cent in others. Over two-fifths of 

 all land of the United States rented to tenant farmers is found 

 in this group of twelve states, and these farms have a value 

 greater than that of the other three-fifths of such farms. 



VALUE OF LAND AND PER CENT OF TENANCY 



The first fact to be noticed is the close parallelism between the 

 value of land and the proportion of tenancy. The above table 

 shows the value of land per acre, and the per cent of tenancy, 

 as reported in the Thirteenth Census, together with the rank 

 in each. 



