20 BULLETIN 1224, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 6. — Average cash rent per acre, by years — Continued. 
Year. 
Northern Illinois.* 
Eastern Nebraska and south- 
eastern South Dakota. 2 
1905-1920, 
18 farms. 
1910-1920, 
37 farms. 
1911-1920, 
54 farms. 
1916-1920, 
77 farms. 
1910-1920, 
27 farms. 
1914-1920, 
57 farms. 
1916-1920, 
79 farms. 
1905 
$4.08 
4.22 
4.34 
4.38 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
4.62 
4.67 
4.73 
4.73 
4.99 
5.15 
5.26 
5.36 
5.74 
6.10 
6.55 
6.83 
1910... 
$4.70 
4.76 
4.85 
5.01 
5.06 
5.35 
5.49 
5.80 
6.13 
6.50 
7.06 
$3.42 
3.58 
3.74 
3.86 
4.08 
4.15 
4.74 
4.98 
5.35 
6.09 
6.55 
1911.. 
1912 
1913... 
1914 
IS. 12 
5.40 
5.55 
5.86 
6.20 
6.57 
7.08 
$3.89 
4.02 
4.36 
4.65 
5.03 
5.70 
6.26 
1915 
1916 
$5. 99 
6.43 
6.87 
7.20 
7.79 
$4.39 
1917 
4.64 
1918 
4.99 
1919 
5.56 
1920 
6.16 
Southern Wisconsin. 3 
Southern Minnesota. 3 
Year. 
1900-1920, 
12 farms. 
190.5-1920, 
20 farms. 
1910-1920, 
42 farms. 
1914-1920, 
81 farms. 
1916-1920, 
113 farms. 
1905-1920, 
11 farms. 
1910-1920, 
31 farms. 
1914-1922, 
81 farms. 
1916-1920, 
135 farms. 
1900 
1901 
1902 
$3. 43 
3.43 
3.46 
3.46 
3.5S 
3.58 
3.65 
3.77 
3.79 
3.80 
3.85 
3.89 
4.00 
4.00 
4.22 
4.38 
4.58 
4.60 
4.73 
5. 35 
5. 55 
1903 
1904 . . 
1905 
$3.36 
3.42 
3.51 
3.52 
3.55 
3.60 
3.69 
3.80 
3.84 
4.03 
4.27 
4.40 
4. 55 
4.69 
5.08 
5. 3 1 
$2. 52 
2.52 
2.61 
2.79 
2.79 
2.92 
2.92 
3.03 
3.04 
3.40 
3.53 
3.60 
3. 88 
4.29 
4.54 
4.94 

1906 . 
1907 . 
190S 
1909 
1910 
$3.88 
3.92 
4.04 
4.12 
4.23 
4.39 
4.50 
4.60 
4.78 
5.17 
5.39 
$2.86 
3.04 
3.09 
3.24 
3.36 
3.50 
3.58 
3.69 
4.34 
4.75 
4.99 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
$4.00 
4.10 
4.22 
4.31 
4.51 
4.85 
5.14 
$3.27 
3.40 
3.48 
3.68 
4.05 
4.38 
4.58 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
1919 
1920 
$4.32 
4.39 
4. 59 
4.87 
5.16 
$3.44 
3.59 
3.91 
4.24 
4.50 
1 The section shaded in map 1. 
' The area included here is that indicated in the shaded portions of these States in map 1. 
3 Southern half of State. 
In Table 6 each column shows the average rent received each year 
on the same group of farms. Thus, for Iowa, column 1 shows the 
average rent received each, year from 1900 to 1920 on the same 69 
farms; column 2 shows the average rent received from 1905 to 1920 
on the same 127 farms, etc. As was to be expected, most of the 
returns gave the amount of rent received for recent years only. A 
few landlords were able to give returns for a 20-year period, a few 
more for 15 years, etc. The yearly average rents were therefore 
computed for different time intervals, as is shown in the table. 
The longer time intervals are represented by smaller numbers of 
farms, hence the series of average rents for these long intervals may be 
regarded, off hand, as being less accurate than the series for the shorter 
time intervals. But for the present purpose this is not necessarily 
the case. In Iowa, for instance, covering the period from 1900 to 
