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BULLETIN 1433, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
When the holdings are grouped by value, a wide variation is re- 5 
vealed between the selected districts. (Tables 12, 13, and 14.) For 
instance, in the areas of central Illinois and northwestern Iowa 
more than four-fifths of the landlords owned over $24,999 of rented 
farms, but in Michigan, where rented farms average in value not far 
from $10,000, only about a twentieth of the landlords owning in the 
area studied had rented farms worth as much as $25,000. Of the 
value of the rented farms in the central Illinois area, 14 per cent was 
owned by 2.4 per cent of the landlords, these being the landlords 
RENTED FARM PROPERTY OWNED BY LANDLORDS WITH LARGE AREAS 
OHIO 
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ILL. 
MICH. 
WIS. 
IOWA 1 
N.anoS.DAK 
KANS. 
TWO OR MORE 
RENTED FARMS 
RENTED FARMS 
10 20 30 40 50 
500 OR MORE 575,000 OR MORE RENTED 
RENTED ACRES FARM REAL ESTATE 
R CENT OF 
RENTED ACRES VALU D V^ R = N J" FAR M 
REAL ESTATE 
10 20 30 40 50 10 20 30 HO 50 60 
1 1 Western 
1 1 Northern 
10 Central 
6 Southern 
6 Southern 
7 N' Western 
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1 1 Eastern 
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Fig. 4.— Great contrast between the areas is shown with regard to the percentage of value of rented farm 
real estate owned by landlords with $75,000 worth or more. In central Illinois and in northwestern 
Iowa, over 55 per cent of the rented farm real estate belongs to landlords with $75,000 or more, whereas in 
southern Michigan and southern Wisconsin less than 6 per cent of the rented farm real estate is so owned. 
Central Illinois and northwestern Iowa lead in the percentage of rented farms owned by landlords with 
two or more rented farms. The Dakota and Kansas areas lead in the percentage of rented areas owned by 
landlords with 500 or more rented acres 
with $250,000 or more of rented farm property. In this area 57.9 
per cent of the rented farm value was held by owners with $75,000 
or more of rented farms, the corresponding figure for northwestern 
Iowa being 55.8 per cent, whereas in the Michigan and Wisconsin 
areas less than 6 per cent of the value of the rented farms indexed 
were owned by persons having rented farm real estate worth as much 
as $75,000 (fig. 4), 
