FARM OWNERSHIP AND TENANCY IN TEXAS. 
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between the tenure and the education of the operator, croppers 
as a class having less education than share tenants had. and share 
tenants having less as a class than had owners. However, it should 
not be inferred from the data presented in the table that the relation 
is all due to the effects of education on tenure. 
Table 21/ — Relation 1 etiveen tenure and the education of the operator. 
Extent of educational attainment. 
Tenure group. 
Below fourth 
grade. 
Fourth to ninth 
grade, inclusive. 
Above ninth 
grade. 
Share croppers 
Number. Percent. 
21 32. 3 
37 19. 1 
17 15.6 
Number. Percent. 
40 61. 5 
134 69. 1 
80 73. 4 
Number. 
4 
23 
12 
Per cent. 
06. 2- 
Share tenants 
11.8 
11.0 
FINANCIAL HISTORY OF OPERATORS. 
NET WOKTH OF OPERATORS AND ITS SOURCES. 
The wealth of the operator and the rate at which he" accumulates 
it are better indications than tenure status of the operator's progress 
in agriculture. However, it is a well-known fact that financial and 
tenure progress generally develop together. This fact is brought 
out by Table 22, which gives the present net worth of the operator 
and the sources of his wealth. Owner operators, it will be noted, 
whose average present net worth was $32,901, had almost 38 times as 
much wealth as croppers who owned on an average $868. 
Of the total net worth of all operators, 53.5 per cent came from 
net accumulations from earnings, 39.6 per cent from increases in 
land values, and 6.9 per cent from fortuitous sources. 38 
Owners accumulated from their earnings an aggregate of 1.7 times 
as much as owners additional accumulated, 5 times as much as have 
tenants, and 21.2 times as much as have croppers. These differences 
in rate of accumulation from earnings by the different tenure groups 
are more significant when considered in connection with the average 
number of years the operators of the different tenure classes have 
been working for themselves. On this basis owners had an average 
annual accumulation from their earnings 1.3 times that of owners 
additional, 3.4 times that of tenants, and 15.3 times that of croppers. 
It is obviously impossible to ascertain how much of the wealth 
received from increases in land values is attributable to the owner's 
superior judgment in securing and holding possession of the land 
and how much of it should be credited to things wholly outside the 
39 For a statement of what is included in the concepts of net accumulation from earn- 
ings, increases in land values, and fortuitous wealth, see footnotes under Table 22. 
