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BULLETIN 1433, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 5. — Rented farms grouped by number held by each owner, selected areas, 
North Central States, 1920 
Coun- 
ties 
studied 
Rented 
farms 
studied 
Percentage of rented farms held by landlords owning 
State and section 
1 farm 
lor 2 
farms 
3 or 
more 
farms 
5 or 
more 
farms 
10 or 
more 
farms 
20 or 
more 
farms 
All 
farms 
Number 
11 
11 
10 
8 
6 
7 
11 
11 
10 
Number 
11, 158 
12, 171 
16, 306 
6,759 
5,236 
7,858 
11, 207 
6,867 
7,910 
Per cent 
76.8 
72.7 
62.0 
92.2 
87.8 
64.5 
71.3 
76.5 
68.9 
Per cent 
91.5 
89.7 
81.7 
98.6 
96.9 
83.4 
89.6 
89.8 
86.8 
Per cent 
8.5 
10.3 
18.3 
1.4 
3.1 
16.6 
10.4 
10.2 
13.2 
Per cent 
2.4 
2.9 
7.1 
.2 
.3 
5.0 
2.8 
4.3 
3.9 
Per cent 
1.1 
1.5 
3.3 
.0 
.0 
1.0 
.7 
1.8 
.7 
Per cent 
1.0 
.8 
2.1 
.0 
.0 
C 1 ) 
.1 
1.2 
.2 
Per cent 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
1*00 
Wisconsin, southern 
Iowa, northwestern 
North Dakota and South 
100 
100 
All areas studied . 
85 
85, 472 
72.7 
88.7 
11.3 
3.7 
1.4 
.8 
100 
1 Less than 0.05 per cent. 
Table 6. — Farm landlords 
number of rented farms held, selected areas, North 
Central States, 1920 
Coun- 
ties 
studied 
Land- 
lords 
studied 
Percentage of landlords holding . 
State and section 
1 farm 
1 or2 
farms 
3 or 
more 
farms 
5 or 
more 
farms 
10 or 
more 
farms 
20 or 
more 
farms 
All 
farms 
Number 
11 
11 
10 
8 
6 
7 
11 
11 
10 
Number 
9,638 
10, 235 
12, 437 
6,480 
4,890 
6,164 
9,355 
5,892 
6,454 
Per cent 
89.0 
86.5 
81.4 
96.2 
94.0 
82.2 
85.5 
89.2 
84.4 
Per cent 
97.5 
96.8 
94.4 
99.6 
99.0 
94.3 
96.5 
97.1 
95.5 
Per cent 
2.5 
3.2 
5.6 
.4 
1.0 
5.7 
3.5 
2.9 
4.5 
Per cent 
0.3 
.4 
1.0 
0) 
.1 
1.0 
.6 
.7 
.8 
Per cent 
(') 
0.1 
.2 
.0 
.0 
.2 
.1 
.1 
.1 
Per cent 
(') 
(') 
0) 
0.0 
.0 
0) 
0) 
0) 
Per cent 
100 
100 
Illinois, central 
Michigan, southern 
Wisconsin, southern 
100 
100 
100 
100 
100 
North Dakota and South 
Dakota, eastern 
Kansas, central 
100 
100 
85 
2 71,397 
86.9 
96.6 
3.4 
.5 
. 1 
(') 
100 
i Less than 0.05 per cent. 
2 Some landlords owned in more than 1 area. 
The census of 1900 showed that a larger proportion of the farm 
landlords resident in Illinois owned more than one rented farm than 
was the case with landlords resident in any other of the North 
Central States. At the time about a third of the rented farms 
owned by residents of Illinois and of Missouri were owned by persons 
who owned more than one rented farm. Residents of Illinois who 
had 20 or more rented farms numbered 34; their rented farms num- 
bered 1,115, averaging 139 acres in size and $6,414 in value per farm. 
There was much less concentration of ownership among residents of 
Michigan and Wisconsin, less than 5 per cent of the landlords resident 
in these two States having more than one rented farm in 1900. 
Practically 90 per cent of the rented farms owned by residents of 
these two States were owned by persons with only one rented farm. 
