OWNERSHIP OF TENANT FARMS IN NORTH CENTRAL STATES 
9 
western Iowa counties the percentage, 18.6, was not far behind. 
The least tendency toward concentration of ownership is shown 
for the Wisconsin and Michigan areas. In the southern Michigan 
area only 1 .4 per cent of the farms indexed were in the hands of persons 
with three or more farms. Examination reveals conditions in the 
various States to be about the same in 1920 as in 1900, due allowance 
being necessary for differences in the tabulation groupings and in the 
completeness of the index. 
Table 4. — Percentage of rented farm real estate in the North Central States held by 
landlords with three or more rented farms, 1900 and 1920 i 
1900 
State and section of State 
1920 
State 
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Percentage of 
rented farm real 
estate held by 
landlords owning 
three or more 
rented farms 
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3 
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"3 
3 
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1° 
8*1 
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Percentage of 
rented farm real 
estate held by 
landlords owning 
three or more 
rented farms 
5 
43 
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Ohio-.. 
P.ct. 
2.3 
4.7 
.7 
.8 
3.9 
1.9 
2.4 
3.6 
P.ct. 
8.8 
16.8 
3.4 
3.1 
13.4 
6.7 
10.4 
13.7 
P.ct. 
9.2 
17.7 
3.6 
2.8 
12.4 
8.2 
10.6 
14.4 
P.ct. 
8.0 
18.6 
3.6 
3.0 
12.1 
9.1 
10.5 
14.0 
No. 
11 
11 
10 
8 
6 
7 
11 
11 
10 
2.5 
3.2 
5.6 
.4 
1.0 
5.7 
3.5 
2.9 
4.4 
P.ct. 
8.5 
10.3 
18.3 
1.4 
3.1 
16.6 
10.4 
10.2 
13.2 
P.ct. 
9.9 
11.6 
20.6 
1.6 
3.2 
17.5 
11.8 
11.9 
14.4 
P.ct. 
10 1 
Dlinois 
12 
Central Illinois - 
20 7 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
Iowa _ 
Southern Michigan 
Southern Wisconsin 
Northwestern Iowa 
1.7 
3.6 
17.2 
12.1 
North Dakota 
South Dakota 
Kansas. _. 
Eastern North Dakota 
and South Dakota. 
Central Kansas 
12.1 
14.2 
All areas studied _ _ . 
12 North Central 
3.3 
12.7 
12.8 
13.6 
85 
3.4 
11.3 
13.2 
14.8 
States. 
1 The 1900 figures are for farm landlords resident in the North Central States and concern rented farms 
owned anywhere in the United States; the 1920 figures are for farm landlords owning rented farms in one 
or more of 85 counties in the North Central States. 
In none of the areas of the 1920 study was any important percentage 
of the rented farms in the hands of persons who owned more than 10 
farms. (Tables 5 and 6.) Even in the central Illinois area, which 
contains a considerable number of farms belonging to the large 
Scully estate, only about a thirtieth of the rented farms are in the 
hands of persons owning 10 or more rented farms. Less than a 
twenty-fifth of the rented farms of the combined areas in the eight 
States were in the hands of persons owning five or more rented 
farms and only 27.3 per cent were in the hands of persons owning 
two or more rented farms. 7 
7 An analysis of the questionnaire replies of 14,222 landlords who owned rented farms in the North Cen- 
tral States in 1920 shows that three-fifths, 60.2 per cent, reported 1 tenant, 82.8 per cent reported 1 or 2 
tenants, and only 4.5 per cent reported 5 or more tenants. Less than 70 per cent of the Michigan, Wis- 
consin, and Ohio landlords reported 2 or more tenants while more than half of the Kansas landlords had 
2 or more tenants. 
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