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BULLETIN 1433, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
LANDLORDS RESIDING ON FARMS 
To the question, "Did you reside on a farm on January 1, 1920?" 
Fourteen thousand one hundred and eighty-eight landlords owning 
rented farms in the North Central States replied. The replies in the 
affirmative constituted 35 per cent of the total number, and a separa- 
tion of the landlords on the basis of the proximity of their residence 
to the rented farm showed that about the same proporation of those 
who resided in the same county resided on a farm as was the case 
with landlords resident elsewhere. The replies would not indicate 
whether the landlord lived on a part of his land and some of the land- 
lords who lived on farms may themselves have been tenants. 
Of the landlords addressed as owning rented farms in Illinois only 
28 per cent of those who replied indicated that they resided on farms, 
whereas 51 per cent of the Michigan landlords resided on farms. 
(Table 19.) 
Percentage of Tenant Farms Rented for Cash 
North Central States. 1900 
Owned by residents of the County Owned by persons resident out of the state 
PER CENT 
WM\ Under 20 WM 20 to 30 |H§j 30 to *0 
SSPi 40 to SO ESSS3 SO and over 
Fig. 10.— The farms of distant owners are more commonly rented for cash than the farms of near-by- 
owners. The importance of cash renting is shown to vary considerably in the different States, 
but in every instance a larger proportion of the farms of out-of-State residents are cash rented than 
is the case with rented farms of owners resident within the county 
Table 19. — Residence 
of owners of rented farms, North Central States, 
1920 
section 
Owners 
replying 
on the 
question 
of resi- 
dence 
Percentage of owners residing 
State and 
On a 
farm 
In a town of— 
Under 
2,500 
2,500 and 
over 
Ohio, western 
Nvmher 
1, 508 
4,967 
1,110 
779 
3,014 
1,122 
1,688 
Per cent 
37 
28 
51 
40 
29 
49 
45 
Per cent 
32 
41 
3 
3 
47 
4 
3 
Per cent 
31 
Illinois, central and northern-.. 
31 
Michigan, southern 
46 
Wisconsin, southern.. . 
57 
Iowa, central and northwestern.. . 
24 
North Dakota and South Dakota 
Kansas, central 
eastern 
47 
52 
All areas studied 
14, 188 
35 
29 
36 
