OWNEKSHIP OF TENANT FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES 
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children, to provide one for each child. But some owners have no 
children and, as a consequence, the children of farm landlords have 
an even smaller chance of inheriting a farm apiece (fig. 19). 
Including the landlords without children there was an average of 
1,368 children per thousand rented farms. In sections where a 
considerable proportion of the farm landlords have a number of 
CHILDREN OF FARM LANDLORDS IN RELATION TO NUMBER OF RENTED FARMS 
OWNED 
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN 
60 40 20 
TENANT FARMS 
PER CHILD 
THOUSANDS OF TENANT FARMS 
20 40 60 80 
MORE THAN ONE 
ONE 
-LESS THAN ONE 
any number- 
fig. 19.— Replies received from 19,945 farm landlords indicated that only 6.1 per cent of the children of 
these landlords were children where parents owned more than one rented farm per child. As many as 
81.1 per cent of the children of the landlords reporting were children whose parents owned less than one 
farm per child 
rented farms, as in case of those owning in the Alabama and Missis- 
sippi areas, the number of children per thousand rented farms was 
low. It was 219 per 1,000 rented farms in the Mississippi area and 
430 per 1,000 rented farms in the Alabama area. In sections where 
few farm landlords have more than one rented farm the number of 
children per thousand rented farms was high. It was 2,420 per 
NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN RELATION TO NUMBER OF 
RENTED FARMS OWNED BY PARENTS 
LAND OWNED 
( BY STATES) 
5 NORTHEASTERN 
8 NORTH CENTRAL 
10 SOUTHERN 
200 400 
NUMBER OF CHILDREN 
PER 1,000 RENTED FARMS 
600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 1,600 1,800 
1,705 
1,77.1 
880 
Fig. 20. — The length of the bar representing the number of children per 1,000 tenants is determined by 
the number of tenants reported by all landlords, including landlords who had no children. The per- 
centage of landlords without children was 21.5 per cent for the Northeastern States, 17 per cent for the 
North Central States, and 17.9 per cent for the Southern States. The figure is based on the replies of 
23,791 farm landlords 
thousand rented farms in the Wisconsin area, 1,985 per thousand in 
the Pennsylvania area, and 1,970 per thousand in the Iowa area. 
Figure 20 shows for the northeastern, for the north central, and for 
the southern areas studied the number of children of farm landlords 
per 1,000 rented farms owned by the landlords. 
The chance of a child inheriting more than one farm is greatest in 
those families where the parents have many farms and few children. 
