48 BULLETIN 1432, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
In Northern States landlordism is commonly a phase of retirement 
from farms. Only 20 per cent of the owners of rented farms in 
Northern States reported their occupations to be farming, and only 37 
per cent reported that they resided on farms. 
Of southern landlords, 10 per cent reported themselves without 
occupation, whereas 35 per cent of northern landlords were without 
occupation. Evidently owners of rented farms in the South do not 
find it as easy and profitable to rent their land after they reach the 
age when landlords retire from farming as is the case with northern 
landlords. The age at retirement from farming for male owners for 
the North and for the South was close to the average of both sections 
combined, 53.6 years. Male owners of rented farms in the South 
averaged 53.7 years of age in 1920 as compared with 59.5 years for 
northern owners. 
Tenants who rent farms in Northern States are more commonly 
related to their landlords by blood or marriage than in the South. 
In several northern areas over a third of the tenants were relatives 
of the landlords, as compared with an average of 12 per cent of the 
tenants in the southern areas. 
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