OWNERSHIP OF TENANT FARMS IN NORTH CENTRAL STATES 29 
Table 24. — Average age at which farm landlords of the North Central States retired 
from active farming for themselves 
State 
Counties 
Land- 
lords 
aver- 
aged i 
Average age 
January 
1, 1920 
At re- 
tirement 
from 
farming 
Ohio 
11 western _ . . . .. 
Number 
481 
2,118 
370 
315 
1,307 
400 
600 
Years 
63.7 
63.9 
61.7 
63.5 
63.5 
61.0 
64.1 
Years 
53.8 
21 central and northern . 
52.9 
8 southern ._ . 
52.5 
6 southern ._ _ 
55.2 
18 central and northwestern -.. 
54.7 
North Dakota and South Dakota- 
53.9 
10 central . . 
53.8 
All areas studied ...---- 
85 ... 
5,591 
63.4 
53.7 
1 Males of 40 or more years of age who reported themselves retired after having farmed for themselves. 
tenure experience of owners of rented farms 
North Central states, 1920 
PER CENT OF 
ALL LANDLORDS 
*■ 92% 
WITH SOME FARM 
EXPERIENCE 
*- 81% 
HAVE FARMED FOR 
THEMSELVES 
-»► 74% 
HAVE FARMED AS 
OWNER OPERATORS 
Fig. 12.— Of a total of 11,930 men who owned rented farms in the North Central States only 8 
per cent were without farm experience and 81 per cent had farmed for themselves either as ten- 
ants or as owners or both as tenants and as owners 
FARM EXPERIENCE OF LANDLORDS 
The fitness of the majority of the owners of rented farms to act'as 
farm landlords and to give the necessary advice and supervision to 
their tenants is shown not only by their maturity in age but by 
their farming experience as well. Only 16.1 per cent of the owners 
of rented farms who returned the questionnaires were women. Of 
the men who reported their experience or lack of experience in farm- 
ing, only 7.7 per cent had evidently never worked on farms, while 81 
per cent had operated farms for themselves either as tenants or as 
owner farmers (fig. 12). 
