50 BULLETIN 1068, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Moves for social, educational, or health reasons are relatively few. 

 However, it is interesting to note that the best accumulators of 

 both tenant classes moved for these reasons in a greater per cent 

 of all cases than is true of the poorest accumulators in each class 

 of tenants. This indicates that the best accumulators probably 

 think more of social, educational, and family standards than do the 

 classes of poorest tenant accumulators. 



Financial pressure or personal faults of the operator caused a 

 greater proportion of moves among the poorest accumulators than 

 among the best of either of the tenant classes. Among owners, how- 

 ever, the opposite situation is noted, which is possibly owing to the 

 fact that the best owner accumulators have much more valuable 

 farms. They have probably taken heavier risks than the poorest 

 owner accumulators have assumed and have been forced more fre- 

 quently to move because of these risks. 



The data on moves for economic reasons taken in conjunction with 

 the time between moves are, in general, indicative of the degree of 

 application of operators to the farm business. Considered thus, 

 again it will be seen that those operators who have applied them- 

 selves most consistently to their farm business have been able to 

 accumulate the most wealth (see p. 45). 



DOMESTIC, SOCIAL, AND EDUCATIONAL CONDITIONS IN RELA- 

 TION TO TENURE. 



DWELLING, SIZE OF FAMILY, AND FAMILY HEALTH. 



Housing conditions for the different tenure classes are summarized 

 in Table 29. The average value of the dwelling was $532 for 

 croppers, $731 for share tenants, $1,335 for owners additional, and 

 $1,532 for owner operators. These values were taken during the 

 winter of 1919-20 and are somewhat higher than prewar values, 

 although not so high as general price levels would indicate. 



A comparison of value alone is not likely to give an adequate idea 

 of the difference prevailing between the housing conditions of owners 

 and tenants. For example, the owner operator's house has an average 

 value nearly three times that of the cropper's house, but the crop- 

 per's house has three-fourths as many rooms. Thus, the average dis- 

 parity between the construction and repair of the two becomes more 

 evident when considered in the light of comparative number of rooms. 

 Not only is the average renter's house poor and flimsy in construc- 

 tion but it is usually kept in very poor repair. Practically all of 

 the reports of "poor condition" are confined to the tenant classes 

 (see Figs. 6 and 7). 



