34 BULLETIN 1433 
, U. 
S. DEPARTMENT 
OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 29. — How the land held by owners of rented farms was acquired, selected 
areas, North Central States, 1920 
Location 
Percentage of owners acquiring land through 
to 

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reporting 
Purchase 
Inheritance 
Marriage 
Home- 
steading 
State 
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Ohio, western 
Illinois, central and 
No. 
11 
21 
8 
6 
18 
11 
10 
No. 
1,513 
4, 983 
1,110 
779 
3,018 
1,104 
1,667 
No. 
170 
311 
147 
192 
364 
680 
610 
P.ct. 
82 
82 
81 
84 
91 
91 
86 
P.ct. 
60 
57 
60 
71 
77 
61 
61 
P.rt. 
69 
75 
72 
82 
88 
84 
85 
P.ct. 
33 
37 
31 
23 
18 
12 
20 
P.ct. 
15 
15 
14 
11 
6 
3 
8 
P.d. 
26 
21 
22 
14 
10 
7 
9 
P.ct. 
7 
9 
6 
4 
4 
5 
P.ct. 
4 
3 
5 
3 
2 
2 
1 
P.ct. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
2 
26 
17 
P.ct. 
1 
1 
1 
1 
0) 
7 
5 
Michigan, southern... 
Wisconsin, southern.. 
Iowa, central and 
northwestern 
North Dakota and 
South Dakota, east- 
Kansas, central. _ 
All areas studied 
85 
14, 174 
339 
85 
64 
81 
27 
11 
14 
6 
3 
5 
2 
Men. _. _ 
85 
85 
11, 905 
2,269 
375 
232 
91 
52 
69 
37 
86 
42 
24 
47 
7 
34 
11 
44 
4 
15 
1 
11 
5 
4 
2 
3 ! 
Women 
Less than one-half of 1 per cent. 
Methods by which Landlords acquired their acreage 
NORTH CENTRAL STATES, 1920 
Male and Female Owners Compared 
MEN 
I I Purchase 
WOMEN 
2.8% 
Marriaqe Y///A Homesteadinq 
Fig. 14.— The areas of the circles are proportionate to the acreages reported. Men owners had 
purchased about six-sevenths of their land as compared with about three-sevenths for women 
owners. The inherited acreage owned by women owners of rented farms was about that owned 
by men owners of rented farms, but this inherited acreage represents a much greater proportion 
of the entire acreage owned in the case of women than in the case of men 
Inheritance was not so much a factor in acquisition of acreage in 
Iowa, the Dakotas, and Kansas as in Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan. 
Homesteading had been a factor of more importance to landlords 
owning in the Dakotas and Kansas than it was to landlords owning 
in the other areas which were studied. Purchase had been a factor 
accounting for at least a part of the land acquired by over eight- 
