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BULLETIN 1433, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
in adjoining States constituted 95.8 per cent of the number, 94 per 
cent of the acreage and 95.3 per cent of the value (figs. 5 and 6). 
LOCATION OF RENTED FARMS IN RELATION TO RESIDENCE OF THE 
OWNERS, NORTH CENTRAL STATES, 1900 AND 1920 
1900 
576,303 Farms 
in 12 States, 
1920 
85,4-02 Farms 
in 8 States 
1920 
PERCENTAGE OF RENTED FARMS OWNED BY 
RESIDENT AND ABSENTEE LANDLORDS 
20 30 4-0 50 60 70 80 
100 
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20J.Same County V//\ Same Stats &&$ Same or Adjoining County \ . ' \ Same or Adjoining State 
Fig. 5.— No decided change seems to have occurred in the 20 years which elapsed between the 
taking of the 1900 and the 1920 census as respects the degree of absenteeism among owners of 
rented farms. The 1900 census revealed that 923 of every 1,000 rented farms in the North 
Central States were owned by landlords who resided in the State in which the farm was located 
and that 740 of every 1,000 were owned by residents of the same county as that which contained 
the farm 
RENTED FARMS IN SELECTED AREAS IN RELATION TO RESIDENCE OF 
THE OWNERS, 1920 
AREAS COVERED 
WEST CENTRAL OH 10 
PER CENT OF RENTED FARMS 
30 40 50 60 70 
NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS - 
EAST CENTRAL ILLINOIS --■ 
SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN 
SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN 
NORTHWESTERN IOWA 
CENTRAL IOWA 
EASTERN N.andS. DAKOTA- - 
CENTRAL KANSAS 
100 
Same County ggg] Adjoining County | Not in State or an adjoining County 
ISO ln State or adjoining State but not in the Count t/ or adjoining County 
Fig. 6. — The Ohio and Wisconsin areas lead in the proportion of rented farms owned by landlords 
resident in the State or in adjoining States. The greatest amount of absenteeism is shown by 
the Dakota area, where more than a fourth of the rented farms were owned by landlords resi- 
dent neither in the county nor in an adjoining county and where about half of these absentee 
owners did not even live in the State or in an adjoining State 
