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BULLETIN 1433, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Seventy-four per cent of the landlords (male) had farmed places 
as owners, 48 per cent had farmed as tenants, 41 per cent had farmed 
both as tenants and as owners, evidently first as tenants and later 
as owners in a majority of cases. 
The landlords who farmed for themselves may be divided into the 
two groups, those who reported themselves as still farming and those 
who no longer farmed. Of those who had farmed only as tenants 34 
per cent continued to farm; of those who had farmed both as tenants 
and as owners 28 per cent continued to farm; of those who had 
farmed only as owners 21 per cent continued to farm. From this it 
seems evident that some of the landlords who reported experience 
only as tenants will have operated farms of their own before they 
stop farming altogether. Of the landlords who were farming at the 
time they answered the questionnaire, 11 per cent had farmed only 
as tenants, whereas 7 per cent of the landlords who had ceased to 
farm had farmed only as tenants. 
Of the landlords giving their experience or lack of- experience as 
farmers 20.5 per cent were farming for themselves when they replied 
to the questionnaire. A greater percentage were farming in the 
OCCUPATIONS OF MALE OWNERS OF RENTED FARMS, NORTH CENTRAL 
STATES, 1920 
PER CENT 
40 50 60 
70 
80 
90 100 
Non -Agricultural 
- i i r 
Retired or Idle 
42.3% 
Fig. 13.— Replies of 11,770 men who owned rented farms in the North Central States in 1920 
indicate that 42.3 per cent had no occupation except that of landlord 
Kansas, Iowa, and Michigan areas than in the Wisconsin, Illinois, 
and Dakota areas. The Ohio landlords are lowest in respect to the 
percentage with farm experience, whereas the Iowa, Michigan, and 
Illinois landlords lead in this regard. (Table 25.) 
Table 25. — Farm experience of owners of rented farms, selected areas, North Central 
States, 1920 
Total 
men own- 
ers report- 
ing ex- 
perience 
Percentage distribution by 
kind of experience 
State and section 
None 
Helper 
not 
farmer 
Farmer 
now 
retired 
Farmer 
still 
farming 
Total 
studied 
Number 
1,213 
4,068 
886 
650 
2,668 
1,032 
1,413 
Per cent 
13.1 
6.9 
6.7 
10.0 
6.3 
8.2 
7.5 
Per cent 
13.8 
9.6 
13.5 
13.1 
10.3 
14.4 
11. 1 
Per cent 
52.8 
64.5 
58.2 
58.3 
61.6 
57.8 
58.0 
Per cent 
20.3 
19.0 
21.6 
18.6 
21.8 
19.6 
23.4 
Per cent 
100 
100 
100 
100 
1C0 
North Dakota and South Dakota, eastern- 
100 
100 
11,930 
7.7 
11.3 
60.5 
20.5 
100 
