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BULLETIN 1432, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The replies concerned any and all fand owned regardless of whether 
it was rented out to tenants, farmed by the owners, farmed through 
the agency of managers or hired help, or not farmed at all. It would 
be natural to expect that landlords who owned properties located 
partly in one State or county and partly in another would say that 
they owned in two counties or States even though they had but one 
rented farm. These considerations should be given weight in using 
the figures on the extent to which landlords own in more than one 
county. Out of 13,405 correspondents who said they had but one 
tenant approximately 4 per cent indicated that they owned land in 
more than one county and 1.2 per cent that they owned land in more 
than one State. Of 8,333 correspondents reporting two or more 
tenants 24 per cent owned in more than one county and 6.5 per cent 
in more than one State. 
Fig. 11.— In Kansas, 30 per cent of share as compared with 39 per cent of the cash-rented farms were 
owned by landlords resident out of the county in 1900. The percentages of the rented farms in some of 
the other States which were owned by out-of-county residents were, Illinois 22 per cent of the share and 
25 per cent of the cash-rented farms, Georgia 18 per cent of the share and 26 per cent of the cash-rented 
farms, Texas 17 per cent of the share and 25 per cent of the cash-rented farms 
ABSENTEE OWNERSHIP OF CASH AND SHARE-RENTED FARMS COMPARED, 1900 
In 1900, 4.5 per cent of the share-rented farms were owned by 
persons resident out of the State as compared with 6.7 per cent of the 
cash-rented farms. In every State in which the renting of farms was 
at all important in 1900 more of the cash than of the share rented 
farms were owned by persons resident out of the State. 
Owners resident out of the county had 19 per cent of the share and 
25 per cent of the cash rented farms in 1900. Corresponding infor- 
mation for the various States appears in Figure 11. 
To show the difference in method of renting followed by landlords 
resident near their farms and that of landlords resident at a distance, 
Figure 12 was prepared. This figure shows for the different States 
the proportion of rented farms rented for cash, recognizing two 
classes of owners : Owners resident in the county and owners resident 
out of State. Of the rented farms in the entire country which were 
owned by residents of the county in which the land was located 35.1 
