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BULLETIN 1258, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
farms of 80 acres or smaller. On the other hand, while scarcely one- 
eighth of the owners operated farms larger than 160 acres, about one- 
fifth of the owners-additional and more than one-fourth of the tenants 
operated farms of larger than 160 acres. (See Table 52.) 
Table 52. — Variations in size of owner, owner-additional, and tenant farms, 1913 
and 1918. 
1913 
1918 . 
Groups. 
Owner 
farms 
(32). 
Owner- 
addi- 
tional 
farms 
(23). 
Tenant 
farms 
(45). 
Owner 
farms 
(35). 
Owner- 
addi- 
tional 
farms 
(28). 
Tenant 
farms 
(37). 
Acres per farm: 
20 and under 
Number. 
Number. 
Number. 
Number. 
1 
7 
12 
6 
6 
1 
Number. 
Number. 
21 to 60 
8 
12 
8 
1 
1 
1 
2 
7 
4 
7 
1 
1 
1 
6 
11 
15 
2 
5 
2 
3 
8 
6 
7 
2 
2 
2 
61 to 100..- 
12 
101 to 140 .- 
12 
141 to 180- .. 
2 
181 to 220-..- 
2 
221 to 260 
3 
261 to 300.- 
1 
301 to 340 
1 
2 
1 
2 
341 to 380- 
1 
1 
381 to 420 
I... 
421 to 460 
1 
1 
1 
In connection with this phase of the subject, the following questions 
are pertinent: 
(1) How much capital was required by owners, by owners-addi- 
tional, and by tenants, to operate farms of given sizes? 
(2) How much farm income was made by owners, by owners- 
additional, and by tenants operating farms of given sizes? 
(3) How much farm income was made by owners, by owners- 
additional, and by tenants, with given amounts of capital? 
(4) How much capital was required by landlords owning farms of 
given sizes, how much farm income was returned to them, and what 
percentage did they make on their capital? 
Approximate answer to some of these questions may be had from 
Figures 14, 15, 16, and 17, which were mathematically constructed from 
the yearly data for the farms of each tenure and averaging the first 
four years and the last four years. These figures do not necessarily 
answer the questions for any particular farm, but they do represent 
approximately the average amounts of capital used by owners and 
by tenants in operating farms of the given sizes, and the corresponding 
farm incomes returned to owners and to tenants for each 4-year 
period; and the capital requirement of landlords for farms of given 
sizes with the corresponding returns in landlords' farm income. 
They indicate what may reasonably be expected in this area on the 
average, under conditions as existing during each of the periods. 
There were such variations in the proportion of the land owned by 
owners-additional that in this respect some of them were much like 
owners, some much like tenants, and others about midway between 
owners and tenants. 
The tenants' farm incomes were more than half of the total farm 
incomes of the smaller farms, while the landlords' farm incomes 
were more than half of the total farm incomes of the larger farms. 
This proportionate division of the farm incomes between tenants 
and landlords is in keeping with the facts that on the smaller tenant 
farms the tenants usually furnished all the working capital, the 
