III. PRESENT ECONOMIC CONDITION OF THE 

 FARMERS OF HARRISON TOWNSHIP. 



A. THE LAND AND ITS OWNERSHIP. 

 a. The Lands Considered. 



We are now to take up the more direct study of the pres- 

 ent economic condition of the farmers in Harrison township. 

 In this connection there must be borne in mind what has 

 already been said, in recounting the reasons for selecting this 

 township for the field of our investigations, in regard to the 

 character of its lands. Heretofore mention has frequently 

 been made of Harrison township in a way that would 

 imply that detailed study would be confined solely to the 

 land in it; and for most of the matters studied, such a 

 statement would be true. But in many of the tables it has 

 been found necessary to include also certain additional acres 

 bordering on the township. We have to consider, in ad- 

 dition to all the lands in the township, all those pieces 

 of land bordering on it which form component parts of 

 farms, the remainder of which lies in Harrison township. 

 These lands could not be omitted because it would not 

 be just to consider a farmer's position with reference to 

 only part of the farm which he had under cultivation, 

 and, moreover, because very commonly mortgages are ex- 

 tant covering both land in and land out of the township, 

 and to properly distribute the burden between the differ- 

 ent parts of a farm so mortgaged would hardly be possi- 

 ble. But these added pieces of land are considered only 

 with reference to present owners; and so only in such tables 

 as those containing mortgage statistics and those concern- 

 ing the size of farms. The former owners, if any, of the 

 added tracts are in no case considered. Table VII. gives the 



