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BULLETIN 1068, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
READING MATERIAL OF THE TENURE CLASSES. 
The extent to which the different tenure classes have access to 
periodical literature is shown in Table 32. Excepting croppers, 39.1 
per cent of whom had no periodical literature, practically no farmer's 
family was without some periodical. Moreover, this encouraging 
fact is made more bright by the nature of this literature, which in 
most cases was first-class reading material. 
Daily newspapers from the larger cities and towns of the black 
land constitute the greatest source of reading material for farmers 
in the area. In all tenure classes there were taken about as many 
daily newspapers as any other class of literature given in the table ; 
and this fact, coupled with the more frequent issue of dailies, easily 
places them in the first rank in amount of reading material furnished. 
From the instructional standpoint agricultural journals occupy 
the next most important place in the reading material of farm opera- 
tors. However, a close second to the agricultural journals are the 
magazines, which as a rule are issued monthly. A few periodicals 
printed in the State dominate these two classes, and their influence 
among farmers is very great. Over 75 per cent of the total receipts 
of periodical literature were Texas publications. 
The time devoted to reading books is relatively small as compared 
with the time spent in reading periodical literature. No books what- 
ever, excepting school books, were found in 39 per cent of all owners' 
homes, and in 36 per cent of all tenants' homes. 
Table 32. — Periodical reading material in the homes of the different tenure 
classes. 
Daily papers. 
Nonagricul- 
tural weekly- 
papers. 
Magazines. 
Agricultural 
journals. 
Operators who 
have no period- 
ical literature. 
Per 
Tenure class. 
Num- 
Per 
Num- 
Per 
Num- 
Per 
Num- 
cent 
who 
had 
agri- 
Num- 
Per 
cent 
of ah 
oper- 
ber 
cent 
ber 
cent 
ber 
cent 
ber 
ber 
report- 
who 
report- 
who 
report- 
who 
report- 
report- 
ing on 
had 
ing on 
had 
ing on 
had 
ing on 
ing on 
ques- 
daily- 
ques- 
weekly 
ques- 
maga- 
ques- 
ques- 
report- 
ing. 
tion. 
papers. 
tion. 
papers. 
tion. 
zines. 
tion. 
jour- 
nals. 
tion. 
Croppers 
63 
34.9 
63 
36.5 
64 
32.8 
62 
30.6 
64 
39.1 
Tenants 
185 
57.8 
183 
60.7 
186 
45.7 
184 
51.6 
186 
4.3 
Owners 
106 
67.9 
103 
62.2 
105 
53.3 
105 
59.0 
106 
0.0 
All operators 
354 
50.8 
349 
56.7 
355 
45.6 
351 
50.1 
356 
9.0 
RELATION BETWEEN TENURE AND EDUCATION. 
In order to ascertain facts as to the relation between tenure and 
education in the black land, data were taken from the teachers' 
