OWNERSHIP OF TENANT FARMS IN NORTH CENTRAL STATES 23 
could easily be reached from figures for those States as a whole. 
In most counties apparently there is little difference in the value per 
acre of the farms owned by remote and by near-by landlords. Sta- 
tistics by States for 1900 and for parts of States for 1920 show with 
a fair degree of consistency, however, that the near-by landlords have 
rented farms that average smaller in size and less in value per farm 
and more in value per acre than farms of remotely distant landlords 
(Table 18). 
Table 18. — Size and value of rented farms owned by near-by residents, as compared 
with farms of absentee owners, North Central States, 1900, and, selected areas, 
North Central States, 1920 
1900 
1920 
State 
Size of farms 
of owners res- 
ident 
Value of farms 
of owners 
resident 
Location of area and 
number of counties 
studied 
Size of farms 
of owners res- 
ident 
Value of farms 
of owners 
resident 
In 
county 
Out of 
State 
I 
In Out of 
county State 
In 
county 
Out of 
State 
In 
county 
Out of 
State 
Ohio 
Acres 
92 
90 
119 
95 
127 
174 
139 
85 
335 
284 
162 
148 
Acres 
101 
129 
131 
102 
146 
226 
183 
127 
405 
325 
242 
207 
Dolls. 
4,142 
3,870 
7,154 
3,685 
5, 665 
5,166 
6,130 
2,481 
5,692 
4,360 
4,351 
3,012 
Dolls. 
4,097 
4,898 
7,198 
3,274 
5,853 
5,834 
7,007 
2,876 
6,623 
4,398 
4,561 
3,316 
Ohio, (11 western) 
Illinois, (11 northern) 
Illinois, (10 central) 
Michigan, (8 southern) .. 
Wisconsin, (6 southern) . 
Iowa, (7 northwestern).. 
Iowa, (11 central) 
North and South Da- 
kota, (11 eastern). 
Kansas, (10 central) 
All 85 counties studied. . 
Acres 
95 
155 
159 
116 
126 
180 
158 
377 
236 
Acres 
102 
160 
180 
111 
154 
211 
178 
404 
278 
Dolls. 
15, 041 
36, 566 
50, 682 
10, 743 
19, 146 
53,637 
42,810 
29, 160 
20, 037 
Dolls. 
16, 092 
35,319 
Illinois 
54,276 
10, 985 
21, 219 
57, 605 
46, 803 
28, 259 
Michigan _ 
Wisconsin 
Minnesota 
Iowa 
Missouri _ 
North Dakota 
South Dakota 
Nebraska- . _ . 
Kansas 
21 153 
12 North Central 
States 
120 
183 
! 
4, 664 4. 784 
167 
239 
33, 200 | 35, 297 
METHOD OF RENTING ADOPTED BY ABSENTEE LANDLORDS 
Farms owned by landlords not resident in the county are more 
commonly rented for cash than are farms owned by residents of the 
county. The 1900 census showed that 32.3 per cent of the rented 
farms in the North Central States owned by landlords resident in 
the county were leased on a cash-rent basis, whereas of the farms 
owned by landlords resident in the State but out of the county 36.7 
per cent were let for cash and of the farms owned by landlords res- 
ident out of the State 38.9 per cent were let for a cash rental. In 
North Dakota, a State in which share rent is very generally paid and 
where only 13.3 per cent of the farms owned by residents of the 
same county were rented for cash, 14.9 per cent of the farms owned 
by residents out of county and 16.2 per cent of the farms owned by 
residents out of the State were rented for cash. In Iowa, a State in 
which rented farms are more generally rented on a cash basis, 62.3 
per cent of the farms owned by persons residing out of the State 
were rented for cash, whereas 59.1 per cent of the farms owned by 
out-of-the county residents and 54.2 per cent of the farms owned by 
residents within the county were rented for cash (fig. 10). In 
every one of the North Central States landlords resident out of the 
State owned a larger percentage of the cash than of the share rented 
farms. 
