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proportion of northern than of southern landlords was without 
occupation, and as this group is the oldest occupational group the 
effect is to make the average age of northern landlords more than 
that of southern landlords. In the southern areas studied landlords 
who were farming averaged 52 years of age as compared with an 
average of 54 for northern landlord farmers. Landlords who had 
occupations other than farming had an average age of 50.9 years in 
the southern and 54.5 years in the northern areas. Landlords of 
rented farms who were without occupation averaged 66.2 years in 
northern and 65.7 years in southern areas. 
Table 22. — Occupations of owners of rentecLfarms, 1920 x 
Areas of study 
Percentage of men own- 
ers by occupation 
Counties 
Per- 
centage 
Total 
men 
owners 
report- 
ing 
Unoc- 
cupied, 
retired, 
idle, 
or 
sick 
Occu- 
pied 
but not 
as 
farm- 
ers 
Farm- 
ers 
Location of land 
Total 
Group 2 
of 
women 
among 
all 
owners 
report- 
ing 
North Atlantic States 
Number 
19 
12 
46 
39 
23 
19 
17 
9 
Number 
1-4 
15,16 
5-9 
10-14 
17-22 
23-26 
27-30 
31 
Per cent 
17 
19 
19 
12 
12 
12 
10 
22 
Number 
2,361 
631 
6,725 
5,045 
1,785 
1,474 
1,940 
380 
Per cent 
29 
18 
43 
42 
8 
8 
16 
20 
Per cent 
51 
58 
36 
35 
33 
27 
41 
47 
Per cent 
20 
24 
21 
22 
59 
65 
43 
33 
West North Central States 
184 
1-31 
15 
3 20, 401 
32 
38 
30 
Replies to questionnaires. 
2 See footnote 4, p. 3. 
3 Includes a few scattered records. 
EXTENT TO WHICH RENTED FARMS ARE OWNED BY NEAR-BY OWNER FARMERS 
The names of farmers operating farms of their own and the names 
of landlords of rented farms were compared for 51 scattered coun- 
ties. This comparison indicated that 18.1 per cent of the owners 
of the rented farms were farming on other farms which they owned 
in the same county as that containing their rented farms. This 
class of landlords owned 21.2 per cent of the rented and manager- 
operated farms, or more than their proportionate share. In general, 
a considerably larger percentage of the rented farms in the southern 
counties studied were held by landlords who operated other farms 
which they owned in the same county than was the case with rented 
farms in the northern counties studied. 
Basing remarks on the limited study made, it appears that 9 per 
cent of the landlords in 14 counties in the North Central States were 
owner-operators farming in the counties containing their rented 
farms, corresponding percentages for 9 counties in the South At- 
lantic States being 23 per cent; for 19 counties in the east South 
Central States, 26 per cent; for 6 counties in the west South Central 
States, 17 per cent; and for 3 California counties, 6 per cent. For 
the same groups of counties the percentage of rented and manager- 
