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IX. INCLUDES ALL OWNERS WHO HAVE AT ANY TIME 

 BEEN RESIDENTS. 



X.-PRESENT OWNERS. 



Residents of township, 



Non-residents of township but residents of county: 

 Formerly resident in township, . . 5 

 Never k > . . 29 



Non-residents of county: 



Formerly resident in township, ... 5 

 Never * fci " 22 



74 

 34 



JJ7 

 135 



Turn now from the personal side of the question to the 

 acreage possessed by the various classes of present owners. 

 Table XL shows the acreage of land held by each of the 

 three classes of owners, and also the number of acres farmed 

 by owners, farmed by tenants, and still uncultivated. We 

 find that over half of the land is farmed by owners, and that 

 only about seven per cent is still uncultivated. The per- 

 centage of acres owned by residents is almost exactly the 

 same as the percentage of owners who are residents. The 

 average size of a resident's holding of land is about one 

 hundred and seventy-five acres. The owner who resides 

 in some other part of the county has on the average a some- 

 what larger holding than this, while the owner non-resident 

 of the county has, in general, a smaller holding; the figures 

 being one hundred and ninety and one hundred and seventy 

 acres respectively. 



