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BULLETIN 1432, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
ADVICE AND SUPERVISION GIVEN BY OWNERS TO THEIR TENANTS 
Replies were returned by 20,512 owners of rented farms to questions 
which revealed the total number of their tenants and the number who 
were given practically no advice or supervision by the landlord or 
his agents or overseers. The landlords replying had a total of 
53,026 tenants, of whom 53 per cent were given some advice or super- 
vision. Supervision is given more commonly by landlords with many 
tenants than by landlords with only a few and more commonly by 
landlords with a few tenants than by landlords with but one tenant. 
Of tenants whose landlords had but one tenant 40 per cent received 
some advice or supervision, whereas 47 per cent of the tenants of 
landlords with 2, 3, or 4 tenants, and 68 per cent of the tenants of 
landlords with 5 or more tenants were given some advice or super- 
vision. 
Advice and supervision are given more generally in the South than 
in the North even to tenants of landlords with one tenant, and as a 
larger proportion of the southern tenants rent from landlords with 
many tenants than is the case with northern tenants, more southern 
tenants are given advice or supervision. As one compares conditions 
in the northeastern, in the North Central and on the Great Plains 
States, it is seen that supervision is given less commonly in the Great 
Plains than in the North Central States and less commonly in the 
North Central States than in the Northeastern States. In the North- 
eastern States tenants less commonly get advice or supervision from 
their landlords than can be said of tenants of the Southern States 
(Table 27). 
Table 27. — Percentage of farm tenants given some supervision or advice by their 
landlords or their agents or overseers, selected areas, 1920 
Location 
Percentage of tenants given 
some supervision or advice, 
classified as to number renting i 
Counties 
Ten- 
ants' 
from each landlord 
States 
studied 
Total 
Group i 
All 
tenants 
1 ten- 
ant 
2, 3, or 
4 ten- 
ants 
5 or 
more 
tenants 
Number 
Number 
Number 
Per cent 
Per cent 
Per cent 
Per cent 
Northeastern.. . 
31 
64 
30 
50 
1-4,15,16 
5-11 
12-14, 28, 29 
17-27, 30 
5,065 
18, 436 
8,134 
20, 340 
51 
44 
38 
68 
42 
40 
33 
45 
55 
44 
38 
56 
73 
55 
42 
75 
North Central . . 
Great Plains. _. 
Southern . 
9 
31 
905 
36 
28 
38 
42 
184 
1-31 
2 53,026 
53 
40 
47 
68 
i See footnote 4, p. 3. 
? Includes some scattered reports, 
