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BULLETIN 1432, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 16. — Percentage distribution of owners of rented farms by age groups, 1920 
(Based on questionnaire replies of 23,836 owners of rented farms) 
Age group 
Under 25 years... 
25 to 30 years 
30 to 35 years 
35 to 40 years 
40 to 45 years 
45 to 50 years 
50 to 55 years 
55 to 60 years 
60 to 65 years 
65 to 70 years 
70 to 75 years 
75 to 80 years 
80 to 85 years 
85 to 90 years 
90 to 95 years 
95 years and over 
Percent- 
age in 
each age 
group 
Age group 
Percent- 
age in 
each age 
group 
0.48 
99.52 
1.10 
Over 29 years 
98.42 
2.41 
96.01 
4.73 
Over 39 years. 
91. 28 
7.27 
Over 44 years _ 
84.01 
9.94 
Over 49 years 
74.07 
12.67 
Over 54 years 
61.40 
14.38 
Over 59 years. 
47.02 
15.71 
Over 64 years.. 
31.31 
12.52 
18. 79 
9.02 
9.77 
6.09 
3.68 
2.60 
1.08 
.90 
Over 89 years.. 
.18 
.16 
Over 94 years.. 
.02 
.02 
Owners of rented farms in the Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Missis- 
sippi areas were the youngest of those reporting, their ages averaging 
less than 52 years. Owners of rented farms in the areas studied in 
four States, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin, and Illinois, reported 
ages which averaged more than 60 years (Table 17). More than a 
third of the owners of rented farms in the areas studied in the States 
of New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kansas, Michi- 
gan, and Iowa gave the age of 65 or more, but in none of the areas 
of the South did more than a fourth of the landlords report an age of 
65 or more. This is one indication, confirmed by other data, that in 
the South landlordism is more a phase of active farm management 
and less a phase of retirement from active farming than is the case in 
the North. 
Table 17. — Age of owners of rented farms by location of land, selected areas, 1920 
Location of land studied 
Total 
land- 
lords re- 
porting 
age 
Average 
age of 
land- 
lords 
Percenta 
ge of landlords re- 
Counties 
porting age 
State 
Total 
Group i 
Under 
55 years 
55 to 64 
years 
65 or more 
years 
New York 
Number 
8 
2 
9 
11 
21 
8 
6 
18 
10 
1 
10 
3 
9 
6 
9 
2 
6 
11 
3 
5 
4 
9 
4 
9 
Number 
1,2 
3 
4 
5 
6,7 
8 
9 
10,11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17,18 
19,20 
21 
22 
23,24 
25 
26 
27 
28,29 
30 
31 
Number 
933 
102 
1,723 
1,476 
4,896 
1,094 
766 
2,975 
932 
175 
1,661 
321 
454 
659 
823 
208 
' 329 
868 
323 
484 
131 
1,060 
971 
472 
Years 
60.8 
61.5 
58.3 
59.5 
60.5 
59.4 
60.6 
59.1 
56.0 
57.7 
59.2 
56.9 
56.0 
54.0 
53.2 
53.0 
53.2 
55.2 
54.5 
51.6 
50.7 
50.6 
55.3 
54.9 
Per cent 
29 
28 
37 
34 
31 
32 
28 
33 
41 
39 
33 
39 
45 
53 
51 
53 
53 
49 
50 
63 
61 
62 
48 
48 
Per cent 
31 
31 
31 
30 
31 
33 
35 
33 
33 
30 
31 
33 
28 
25 
27 
26 
30 
27 
26 
22 
19 
22 
27 
30 
Per cent 
40 
New Jersey 
41 
Pennsylvania 
32 
Ohio 
36 
Illinois 
38 
Michigan 
35 
Wisconsin 
37 
Iowa. 
34 
North Dakota. 
26 
South Dakota 
31 
36 
28 
27 
22 
North Carolina 
22 
South Carolina 
21 
17 
24 
24 
15 
20 
16 
Texas 
25 
California. _ 
22 
All areas studied 
184 
1-31 
2 23,916 
57.8 
39 
30 
31 
See footnote 4 on p. 
2 Includes a few scattered records. 
