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BULLETIN 1433, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE 
Table 31. — Extent to which farm tenants are related to their landlords, selected 
areas, North Central States, 1920 
State and section 
Landlords reporting 
Land- 
lords 
Rented 
farms 
owned 
Percent- 
age of 
land- 
lords 
without 
any ten- 
ants of 
kin 
Percentage of 
rented farms 
occupied by 
Tenants 
of kin 
Sons or 
sons-in- 
law 
Percent- 
age of 
tenants 
of kin 
who 
were 
sons or 
sons-in- 
law 
: 
Ohio, western 
Illinois, central and northern. _ 
Michigan, southern 
Wisconsin, southern 
Iowa, central and northern 
North Dakota and South Dakota, eastern. 
Kansas, central 
All areas studied 
Number 
1,513 
4,992 
1,110 
779 
3,018 
1,122 
1,688 
Nu mber 
2,268 
8,895 
1,425 
1,060 
5,734 
2,234 
Per cent 
64 
55 
59 
53 
52 
64 
53 
Per cent 
29 
Per cent 
24 
31 
30 
37 
32 
20 
24 
P(T 
cent 
82 
84 
85 
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56 
Percentage of Rented Farms Operated by Relatives 
of the Owners, Selected Counties, 1920 
PER CENT 
£H Under 20 
Hi 20 -2.9, 9 
TO30-39.9 
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WMso and oyer 
Fig. 15. — Of the 85 counties studied, in only 1, a Wisconsin county, were as many as half of the 
farm tenants reported to be renting from relatives. In 3 of the other Wisconsin counties 
studied, in 7 of the 21 Illinois counties, and 4 6i the 18 Iowa counties between 40 and 49.9 per 
cent of the tenants rented from relatives 
SUPERVISION GIVEN BY OWNERS TO TENANTS 
Owners of rented farms to whom questionnaires were sent were 
asked to answer the following questions bearing on the subject of 
advice and supervision given tenants: Give number of tenants 
How many of your tenants in 1920 carried on their farming 
operations with practically no advice or supervision from you, your 
agents, or overseers? Landlords to the number of 13,235 
owning rented farms in the North Central States gave replies on 
these questions which could be tabulated. (Table 32.) 
