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owner's efforts and ability. If such a separation were possible, a 
figure on accumulation from all human efforts, mental and physical, 
would show much greater differences for the operators than are 
shown by the comparisons made in the above paragraph. 
Table 22. — Average present net worth per operator and its sources, by tenure 
classes. 
Number 
of 
operators. 
J Wealth received 
i Average 1 from increases in 
Average amount i la nd values.* 
present of wealth: 
Wealth received 
from fortuitous 
sources. 1 
Present tenure status. 
net worth accumu- . 
per lated Number » VPra „ p 
operator. from j of opera- amount 
earnings.i tors r a e £ffi 
receiving. | receivea - 
Number A vera?e 
. . received 
receiving. rewJlveu - 
65 
192 
26 
83 
$868 $721 ' 5 $732 
3,979 3,047 34 3,014 
15 ', $444 
91 840 
16,166 8,761 ; 26 5,981 i 14 2,645 
32.901 15,254 83 >■ 15,807 ' 53 2,882 
366 
10,851 5,822 i 148 10,632 173 1.577 
•-. 1 ■ 1 
i This figure does not include wealth received from increases in land values and fortuitous wealth, but 
does include any wealth made by the use of capital from these sources. Accumulations from earnings 
.represent approximately the wealth the operator fias earned from his farming efforts (labor and manage- 
ment) and any wealth made from the use of capital from whatever source received. 
1 Increases in land values, as used in this bulletin, means net increases from this source, all value of improve- 
ments put on the land by the owner being deducted. 
• Wealth received through inheritance, gift, and marriage. 
Every owner interviewed had made more money from changes in 
land values than he had lost. Forty-eight per cent of the total pres- 
ent net worth of owner operators and 37 per cent of the present net 
w r orth of owners additional was secured from increases in land 
values. Only 34 of the 192 share tenants and 5 of the 65 share 
croppers received wealth from increases in land values, and the 
average amounts thus received were very small in comparison with 
the amounts received by owners. 
The wealth received from fortuitous sources was relatively small 
as compared with the wealth received from the other two sources. 
However, it should be noted that owners received larger amounts of 
wealth from this source than did tenants. Fifty of the 67 owners 
who received fortuitous wealth got $500 or more at the time of be- 
coming owners or before. It is very probable that most of these 
operators received their fortuitous wealth at a time in their financial 
history when it was relatively of great importance to them as a 
•" boost." 
VARIATION IN ACCUMULATIVE ABILITY OF OPERATORS AND ITS INFLUENCE ON 
TENURE. 
The extent to which men differ in their ability to accumulate wealth 
irom their earnings is brought out by Table 23 and Figure 5. It will 
