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grains, hogs, and cattle as the principal products marketed. The 
Missouri localities are distributed among Lafayette, Clay, Saline, 
Calloway, Jackson, and Lincoln Counties. Riley, Pratt, Sedgwick, 
and Cherokee Counties were represented by the localities studied in 
Kansas. The Iowa localities were confined to Boone, Story, and Sac 
Counties. The Ohio study was limited to one locality in Delaware 
County. 
The distribution of the localities among the different sections and 
the different States is shown in Figure 1. 
Of the 2,886 farmers represented in all localities studied, 1,950 are 
owners, 867 are cash and share tenants including croppers, and 69 
are hired men or managers. The number of cropper families is 
negligible, except in the localities of the Southern States. Some of 
the schedules from localities of these States failed to designate clearly 
whether the families represented should be classed as tenant or crop- 
per. For these reasons the data for all cropper families were tabu- 
FAMILIES INCLUDED 
IN SURVEY 
x Less than 25 
A 25 -249 
• 250 or over 
Fig. 1. — Localities from which the data in this bulletin were obtained 
lated with the data for tenant families unless otherwise designated. 
Some of the owners were hiring additional land and a few were 
renting out some land to other operators. A few tenants owned land 
which they were leasing out or working in addition to that which 
they were renting. 
Size and value of farms as used throughout the summary cover 
the farm actually operated. The average size of farms was 147.5 
acres for the 2,553 farms for which acres were reported, not includ- 
ing the farms worked by hired men. The 1,771 of those farms oper- 
ated by owners averaged 152.8 acres in size, in comparison with 135.6 
acres per farm for the 782 of these farms operated by tenants. The 
number of acres per farm for the farms worked by hired men or 
managers were not available for this tabulation. 
The average value of the farms for which values were obtained, 
1,797 in number, amounted to $13,788. Owner farms, 1,342 in num- 
