OWNERSHIP OF TENANT FARMS IN NORTH CENTRAL STATES 
tions in various parts of the country. To broaden the comparisons, 
somewhat different groupings were made of the 85 counties of the 
North Central States than those which appear in this bulletin. 
To simplify the tabulations, the 85 counties in the North Central 
States indexed for ownership of rented farms in 1920 are handled as 
nine groups throughout this discussion: (1) Eleven counties in south- 
western Ohio; (2) 11 counties in northern Illinois, the more southerly 
of which are La Salle and Grundy; (3) 10 counties in east central Illi- 
nois devoted more to corn and oats and less to general farming and 
dairying than the northern Illinois area; (4) 8 dairying and general- 
farming counties in the south-central part of the lower peninsula of 
Michigan; (5) 6 dairying counties in south-central Wisconsin, 1 of 
which does not touch any of the other 5; (6) 7 counties in the north- 
Fig. 1.— The ownership of rented farm land in 1920 was studied for 85 counties in the North Central 
States and 99 counties in other sections of the United States. The figure shows how the counties 
are situated with respect to one another 
western corner of Iowa; (7) 11 counties in central Iowa, 1 of which 
does not touch any one of the other 10; (8) 10 counties in southeastern 
North Dakota with adjoining Brown County, S. Dak., making an 
area composed of 11 counties in which the production of spring- 
sown small grains is important; and (9) a group of 10 winter-wheat 
growing counties in central Kansas. 
Valuable supplementary information of a personal nature was 
supplied by 14,300 landlords who answered questionnaires sent to 
landlords whose names and addresses were indexed as owning rented 
farms in the North Central States. 
In considering the completeness of the data on concentration or 
ownership it should be noted that census enumerators were not asked 
to ascertain the name and address of owners of land that was not 
farmed. In their replies landlords who answered the questionnaires 
sent to them by the Division of Land Economics and Land Utiliza- 
tion reported the total acreage they owned, including acreages rented 
to tenants, acreages operated personally or with hired labor or man- 
agers, and acreages not farmed at all. 
