FARM OWNERSHIP AND TENANCY IN TEXAS. 



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ciency and capacity of the operators, but is also partly clue to the 

 superior wealth saving and using ability of the best accumulators. 



In agriculture, development of ability and advance in one's voca- 

 tion is more largely dependent on the amount of personally accumu- 

 lated wealth than in many other vocations. The farmer must have 

 capital, and this is usually owned, borrowed, and rented, or is owned 

 and borrowed. The amount the farmer can borrow depends to. a con- 

 siderable extent on his wealth, much of which is, as a rule, secured 

 from accumulations from earnings. But wage hands, skilled me- 

 chanics, professional men, and men employed in numerous corporate 

 industries can, and frequently do, rise in their vocations, whether 

 they save from their earnings or not. Saving from earnings for the 

 farmer is, therefore, not only one of the most important factors in 

 accumulation of wealth, but it is also a means to the expans'on of his 

 business and to the fuller development and employment of his ability 

 as an operator. 



Table 25. — Relation beUceen different classes of accumulators of wealth and 

 the size of the farm business in 1919, and average size of farm operated under 

 the different tenure stages of the operator's history. 





Croppers. 



Tenants. 



Owners. 



Items of correlation. 



Poorest. 



Me- 

 dium. 



Best. 



Poorest. 



Me- 

 dium. 



Best. 



Poorest. 



Me- 

 dium. 



Best. 





21 



$6, 805 



$596 

 37.9 



1.9 



42.4 



60. 5 



102.0 



.19 



$7, 15S 



$774 

 45.8 



2.7 



47.8 

 50. 1 



22 



$15, 399 



$1,173 

 79.9 



2.8 



75.1 



65 



$13,657 



$1,261 

 85.9 



3.7 



45.3 



62 



$15, 332 



$1,567 

 88.0 



3.9 



59.9 



64 



$19, 028 



$2,014 

 106.9 



4.S 



52.4 



100.0 



87.5 



39 



$14, 571 



$1,452 

 81.1 



3.9 



58.5 



73.9 



100. 1 



31 



$18, 891 



$2,101 

 107.2 



4.5 



30. S 



7S.3 



116. I 



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Average value of land and 

 buildings operated in 1919. 



Averaee value of equipment 

 used in 1919 



$26, 248 

 $2, 344 



Average acres in crops in 1919. 



Average number of work 



stock per operator in 1919. . 



Average acres operated when 



136.7 

 6.1 



102. 9 



Average acres operated when 



67. 1 : 78. 8 85. 9 

 94. 7 83. 



89. 9 



ed when 



168.1 













i Th<- number of operators In these Uireo lines varies from the number given at the top of the tables 

 in most cases the number being lesv. 



RELATION BETWEEN 'till. OPERATOR'S DEGREE OF APPLICATION IN OPERATING HIS 

 I A KM and HIS ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH FROM EARNINGS. 



Constancy of purpose and application to the business of opera! 

 ing a farm has evidently been exercised more among the best ac- 

 cumulators than anion;'- the poorest. This fact can be seen by 



Comparing the 'I of data Of almost any two classes of aceiimil 



latot in Table 26, bul the data on the two extreme classes will 

 be used to bring oui the point. In the ease of owners the best 

 accumulators have been working for themselves an average of 24.5 

 years, while the poore I accumulators among croppers have been 

 working for themselves for an average of L9.4 year . The former 



