OWNERSHIP OF TENANT FARMS IN NORTH CENTRAL STATES 37 
It is obvious that only a rough indication of the extent to which 
tenant farmers are given advice or supervision can be obtained from 
such a question. What one landlord might call advice or super- 
vision another might not. Nor do the answers requested make it 
possible to gauge in any way the need of the advice or supervision 
given or withheld, its value, how much or on what subject it was 
given, or the extent to which it was followed. 
Table 32. — Farm landlords giving their tenants advice or supervision, North Central 
States, 1920 
Land- 
lords 
report- 
ing 
Landlords grouped by number of tenants 
Amount of advice or super- 
vision 
All 
land- 
lords 
1 ten- 
ant 
2 ten- 
ants 
3 ten- 
ants 
4 ten- 
ants 
5-9 
tenants 
10-19 
tenants 
20 or 
more 
tenants 
No advice or supervision giv- 
Nu mber 
8,554 
4,159 
522 
Per cent 
57.1 
39.0 
3.9 
Per cent 
60.8 
39.2 

Per cent 
54.6 
37.5 
7.9 
Per cent 
51.4 
38.9 
9.7 
Per cent 
47.8 
38.3 
13.9 
Per cent 
40.7 
44.3 
15.0 
Per cent 
36.5 
43.2 
20.3 
Per cent 
42.8 
All tenants given advice or 
42.9 
Part but not all tenants given 
advice or supervision 
14.3 
Totals 
13,235 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
The 13,235 landlords who answered the question relating to super- 
vision had 24,011 tenants. (Table 33.) Of these 44.1 per cent were 
given some advice or supervision. Supervision is 'given more com- 
monly where tenants rent from landlords with many tenants and less 
commonly where landlords have but one tenant. Tenants of land- 
lords who had but 1 tenant received supervision or advice in 39.2 
per cent of the cases; whereas 44.4 per cent of the tenants of land- 
lords with 2, 3, or 4, and 52.2 per cent of the tenants of landlords 
with 5 or more tenants, were given advice or supervision. 
Comparing reports from the different States it appears that ten- 
ants of Ohio and Wisconsin landlords are given supervision or advice 
in a greater proportion of cases than tenants of landlords owning in 
the other States studied, Iowa and Kansas tenants getting supervision 
or advice in the smallest proportion of cases. 
In Wisconsin, the State in which the highest proportion of tenants 
were shown to be relatives of the landlords, 58.6 per cent of the ten- 
ants were given advice or supervision. One would expect supervision 
to be given to a greater proportion of share tenants than of cash 
tenants. The reports from Iowa and North Dakota landlords bear 
out such an assumption. Iowa is conspicuous for the amount of 
cash renting and North Dakota is notable for the extent to which 
rented farms are worked on shares. Of the tenants of Iowa land- 
lords 37.8 per cent were given advice or supervision, and 50.3 per 
cent of the tenants of landlords owning in the North Dakota and 
South Dakota counties studied were given supervision, 
