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BULLETIN 1432, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 28. — Extent to which farm tenants are related to their landlords, selected 
areas, 1920 
Area of study 
State 
New York 
New Jersey 
Pennsylvania 
Ohio 
Illinois 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
Iowa 
North Dakota 
South Dakota 
Kansas 
Delaware 
Maryland.. 
Virginia 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Georgia 
Kentucky 
Alabama 
Mississippi 
Louisiana 
Oklahoma 
Texas 
California : 
All areas studied 
Counties 
Total 
Number 
8 
2 
9 
11 
21 
8 
6 
18 
10 
1 
10 
3 
9 
6 
9 
2 
6 
11 
3 
5 
4 
Group 
Number 
1,2 
10,11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17,18 
19,20 
21 
22 
23,24 
25 
26 
27 
28,29 
31 
Landlords reporting 
Total 
Number 
957 
107 
1,780 
1,513 
4,992 
1,110 
779 
3,018 
947 
175 
1,688 
328 
465 
667 
835 
212 
331 
889 
331 
492 
133 
1,071 
980 
491 
2 24,373 2 56,845 
Rented 
farms 
Number 
1,319 
173 
2,623 
2,2C8 
8,895 
1,425 
1,0C0 
5,734 
1,844 
390 
3,990 
619 
812 
2,191 
3,134 
889 
1,483 
2,062 
2,656 
6,043 
375 
2,640 
3,080 
965 
Per- 
cent- 
age of 
land- 
lords 
without 
any 
tenants 
of kin 
cent 
63 
76 
66 
64 
55 
59 
53 
52 
65 
55 
53 
78 
74 
67 
68 
74 
65 
69 
74 
71 
54 
76 
60 
75 
Percentage of rented farms occu- 
pied by tenants of kin classi- 
fied by number of tenants or 
degree of kinship 
All 
farms 
Per cent 
31 
18 
28 
29 
37 
36 
42 
36 
24 
27 
31 
16 
19 
16 
13 
9 
13 
19 
5 
5 
25 
14 
20 
18 
1 or 2 
tenants 
cent 
35 
22 
31 
34 
41 
39 
45 
43 
32 
44 
37 
18 
22 
24 
24 
18 
29 
26 
29 
26 
38 
18 
31 
22 
3 or 
more 
tenants 
Per 
Sons or 
sons-in- 
law 
Per cent 
25 
14 
24 
24 
3t 
30 
37 
32 
20 
24 
24 
11 
13 
12 
11 
8 
10 
14 
3 
3 
17 
9 
2 
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i See footnote 4, p. 3. 
2 Includes a few scattered reports. 
CHILDREN OF FARM LANDLORDS 
In this country where, upon the death of the parents, the property 
is usually divided among the children, it is of interest to know some- 
thing about the number of children in the families of owners of 
rented farms. Where there are many heirs even a large holding of 
rented farms may not afford a farm for each. Where there is one 
heir, or only a few, it is easier for one heir to hold the farm property 
intact or even to increase the acreage if the rents are used buy to 
more land. 
Children are not the only possible heirs and where there are no 
children the chance of the property being divided would probably 
be as great or greater than where there are children. The number of 
landlords without children was 18 per cent of the total, 13 per cent 
had 1 child, 16 per cent had 2, and 14 per cent 3 children. The land- 
lords with 8 children or more made up 8 per cent of the total number. 
The number of children reported by 24,364 owners of rented farms 
was 77,766 which is an average of something over three for each 
owner. About 35 per cent of these owners had some land which they 
did not rent to tenants. Assuming that the land not rented would 
amount to a farm apiece for the owners and adding these farms, 
approximately 8,500 in number, to the 56,828 farms rented to ten- 
ants there would not be enough farms, if evenly distributed among the 
