FARM OWNERSHIP AND TENANCY IN TEXAS. 
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of the people. The Bohemians and people of other foreign extrac- 
tion get much entertainment and amusement from public dances. 
THE USE OF THE AUTOMOBILE, TELEPHONE, AND R. F. D. BY THE DIFFERENT 
TENURE CLASSES. 
The automobile, the telephone, and the rural free delivery have 
done a great deal to make life on the farm more enjoyable, and at the 
same time have been a source of farm profit as well. Table 31 shows 
the extent to which these agencies are used by the different tenure 
classes. 
Table 31. 
-Number and per cent of operators in each tenure class that have 
automobiles, telephones,, and rural free delivery. 
Automobile. 
Telephone. 
Rural free delivery. 
Tenure status. 
Number 
report- 
ing. 
Per cent 
having 
automo- 
biles. 
Number 
report- 
ing. 
Per cent 
having 
tele- 
phones. 
Number 
report- 
ing. 
Per cent 
using 
R.F.D. 
Share croppers 
61 
194 
26 
82 
16.4 
45.9 
80.8 
74.4 
65 
192 
26 
83 
20.0 
47.4 
69.2 
59.0 
65 
192 
26 
81 
86.0 
85.0 
96.0 
90.5 
Automobiles are used less by croppers than by any other tenure 
class, about 1 in 6 having cars. Almost 1 out of every 2 share tenants 
owned an automobile ; 4 out of each 5 owners additional, and 3 out of 
each 4 owner operators owned cars. Sixty owners estimated that on 
an average 34.3 per cent of the total use made of their automobiles 
was for farm business ; 120 tenants estimated that on an average 37.2 
per cent of the total use of their automobiles was for farm business. 
Forty of the 99 tenants who owned cars paid more on them for run- 
ning expenses alone in 1919 than their entire family savings for the 
year amounted to. 
The cost of the telephone is relatively small as compared with the 
cost of keeping an automobile, and there are probably few farmers 
who had telephones that did not make use of their telephones enough 
in their farm business to pay for the cost. About 1 out of every 5 
croppers, almost half of the share tenants, 7 out of each 10 owners 
additional, and 6 out of each 10 owner operators had telephones. 
Postal free delivery service was utilized by 86 per cent of all share 
croppers, 85 per cent of all share tenants, and 96 and 91 per cent, 
respectively, of owners additional and owner operators. Owners' 
homes are probably more frequently found on the main highways 
than are tenants' homes, and since these are the roads on which 
R. F. D. routes most often pass, owners probably are more con- 
veniently located with respect to this service than are tenants. 
