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BULLETIN 1433, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 8. — Extent to which rented farms in the North Central States were owned by 
landlords with 500 or more rented acres, 1900 and 1920 
1900 i 
States and areas studied 
Holdings of 500 or more rented acres 
State 
Number and location 
of counties 
Average 
size of 
tenant 
farms 
Owners 
Farms 
Acreage 
Value 
Ohio 
All 
Acres 
92.7 
122.2 
95.0 
126.9 
145. 8 
347.0 
299.1 
165.0 
Per cent 
1.1 
3.4 
.8 
1.5 
3.2 
15.5 
13.4 
4.6 
Per cent 
3.8 
10.7 
1.9 
2.5 
8.8 
21.1 
21.2 
11.2 
Per cent 
8.4 
19.8 
6.1 
8.6 
15.5 
40.8 
38.9 
24.8 
Per cent 
6.4 
17.9 
4.3 
5.0 
13.5 
40.0 
28 8 
Illinois 
Michigan ... 
All 
AIL... 
Wisconsin . _-_ ... 
AIL. . 
Iowa 
North Dakota ._ 
South Dakota_ _ 
All 
All 
AIL-.. 
Kansas . ... 
All 
17 2 
12 North Central States 
AIL... 
129.0 
3.0 
8.1 
18.0 
14 
1920 2 
Ohio 
105.1 
164.4 
172.8 
118.1 
132.2 
191.8 
166. 9 
420.1 
272.4 
1.4 
4.4 
7.3 
-.7 
1.0 
8.9 
5.2 
25.7 
14.8 
4.2 
11.2 
19.3 
1.5 
2.2 
20.4 
11.7 
35.2 
25.8 
9.4 
15.6 
25.4 
3.5 
4.1 
25.1 
16.5 
50.4 
38.3 
9 4 
Illinois 
15 5 
Illinois . 
24 8 
Michigan.. . 
8 southern _ . ... 
.3 8 
Wisconsin 
6 southern . . 
3.5 
Iowa _ . .... 
7 northwestern 
24 2 
Iowa 
16 5 
North and South Dakota . 
11 eastern. . . . 
49. 1 
Kansas _____ 
10 central... - 
34.7 
All areas studied. 
181.7 
7.0 
14.7 
25.8 
21 9 
1 The 1900 figures are for farm landlords resident in the named States, but concern indexed rented farms 
owned anywhere in the United States. 
2 The 1920 figures are for farm landlords owning in the 85 counties studied and concern rented farm prop- 
erty in the 85 counties. 
As shown in Tables 9 and 10, 9.6 per cent of the total area of the 
farms indexed was owned by landlords of not less than 1,000 acres, 
comprising 1.4 per cent of the total number of landlords, and rang- 
ing from 0.5 per cent of the rented acreage in southern Wisconsin 
to 16.5 per cent in central Kansas and 20.3 per cent in the Dakota 
area. Except in the Dakota area, more than half of the rented land 
was owned by landlords having 100 to 500 acres of rented land. 
Table 9. — Rented acreage grouped by acreage held by each owner, selected areas, 
North Central States, 1920 
Coun- 
ties 
studied 
Rented 
acre- 
age 
studied 
Percentage of rented acres held by landlords 
owning — 
State and section 
Less 
than 
100 
acres 
Less 
than 
200 
acres 
200 
acres 
or 
more 
1,000 
acres 
or 
more 
2,500 
acres 
or 
more 
All 
acre- 
age 
studied 
Ohio, western-. .. . ... ._ ..- 
Number 
11 
11 
10 
8- 
6 
7 
11 
11 
10 
1,000 
acres 
1,103 
1,932 
2,664 
773 
673 
1,466 
1,806 
2,630 
1,940 
Per cent 
25.2 
7.2 
6.1 
23.8 
14.9 
3.0 
6.8 
.2 
2.0 
Per cent 
62.1 
41.3 
32.7 
71.0 
61.8 
30.3 
39.0 
6.0 
19.6 
Per cent 
37.9 
58.7 
67.3 
29.0 
38.2 
69.7 
61.0 
94.0 
80.4 
Per cent 
3.1 
4.4 
10.2 
.6 
.5 
7.3 
3.9 
20.3 
16.5 
Per cent 
1.7 
1.2 
4.2 


1.0 
.6 
6.2 
4.6 
Per cent 
100 
100 
100 
1C0 
Wisconsin, southern 
Iowa, northwestern 
100 
100 
100 
North Dakota and South Dakota, 
100 
100 
85 
14, 987 
7.2 
33.4 
66.6 
9.6 
2.9 
100 
