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BULLETIN 1432, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 
Table 24. — How the land held by owners of rented farms was acquired. Land- 
lords owning in selected areas, 1920 
Percentage of owners acquiring land through — 
tion 
Owners re- 
porting 
Loce 
Purchase 
Inheritance 
Marriage 
Home- 
steading 3 
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No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
P.ct. 
P.ct. 
P.rf. 
P.ct. 
P.ct. 
p.rf. 
P.ct. 
P.d. 
P. ct. 
P.ct. 
Northeastern 
31 
1^, 15, 16 
3,466 
191 
78 
64 
69 
31 
18 
27 
5 
4 
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North Central 
64 
5-11 
11,403 
282 
84 
64 
79 
30 
12 
17 
6 
3 
1 
1 
Great Plains 
30 
12-14, 28, 29 
3,841 
569 
66 
61 
84 
14 
5 
7 
5 
2 
23 
7 
Southeastern. 
34 
17-24 
2,820 
308 
82 
59 
72 
31 
12 
21 
11 
6 
1 
1 
Southwestern 
16 
25-27, 30 
1,876 
493 
89 
74 
Si 
18 
6 
11 
9 
5 
5 
2 
California __ 
9 
31 
479 
495 
77 
67 
67 
31 
16 
26 
10 
6 
5 
1 
All areas studied.. 
184 
1-31 
«23,963 
339 
84 
64 
79 
27 
11 
16 
7 
3 
5 
2 
i See footnote 4, p. 3. ~\ 
2 The following percentage of the land owned by landlords reporting from selected States was purchased : 
New York, 61; New Jersey, 62; Pennsylvania, 76; Delaware, 61; Maryland, 71; Ohio, 69; Michigan, 72; 
Illinois, 75; Wisconsin, 82; Iowa, 88; North Dakota, 84; Kansas, 85; Oklahoma, 82; Virginia, 71; North Caro- 
lina, 71; South Carolina, 76; Georgia, 74; Kentucky, 74; Alabama, 75; Mississippi, 87; Texas, 84. 
3 All the land owned is not necessarily in the area, and owners grouped as owning rented farms in States 
where they had little opportunity to homestead may have homesteaded in other States. 
4 Less than 0.05 per cent. 
8 Includes a few scattered records. 
Table 25. — Extent to which acreage owned by farm landlords was rented to tenants. 
A comparison between owners who purchased all their land and owners who in- 
herited all. Selected areas, 1920 
Location 
Owners studied 
Percentage and class of owners 
Counties 
Pur- 
chasers 
Inheri- 
tors 
Purchasers 
Inheritors 
States 
Total 
Group i 
Rent- 
ing all 
land 
Area 
rented 
Rent- 
ing all 
land 
Area 
rented 
Number 
31 
64 
30 
34 
16 
Number 
1-4, 15, 16 
5-11 
12-14, 28, 29 
17-24 
25-27, 30 
Number 
2,231 
7,307 
2,342 
1,665 
1,319 
Number 
625 
1,379 
197 
341 
110 
Per cent 
69 
79 
67 
28 
34 
Per cent 
81 
87 
81 
58 
63 
Per cent 
80 
88 
81 
41 
37 
Per cent 
93 
93 
91 
Southeastern 
63 
Southwestern . 
70 
184 
1-31 
15, 230 
2,740 
66 
79 
78 
86 
1 See footnote 4, p. 3. t Includes the California area aad some scattered reports. 
CHANGES IN SOIL FERTILITY 
It seems to be the belief of many people that depletion of fertility 
and tenancy go hand in hand and that tenancy is to blame. It would 
be a very difficult matter to make a scientific appraisal of the changes 
occurring to the fertility of rented farms. Careful records would have 
to be kept for many years and care would have to be taken to elimi- 
nate differences in yield caused by differences in soil, in the rotation, 
