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BULLETIN 1432, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
EXTENT TO WHICH FARM LANDLORDS RESEDE ON FARMS 
The questionnaire answers of 24,342 owners of rented farms stated 
whether or not the correspondent lived on a farm,. This matter has 
nothing to do with the question of the residence being on land which 
the correspondent owned. Of landlords resident in the county or in 
counties adjoining their rented farms 44 per cent lived on farms, 
whereas of landlords whose residence was more remote from their 
rented land 35 per cent lived on farms. However, more than half of 
the landlords who owned in the Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota 
PLACE OF RESIDENCE OF LANDLORDS OF RENTED FARMS 
1920 
OWNERS OF NORTHERN FARMS 
( NORTH OF POTOMAC, OHIO AND BED RIVERS ) 
OWNERS OF SOUTHERN FARMS 
ON FARMS 
TOWNS OF 2500 OR LESS 
POPULATION 
^rrq TOWNS OVER 2500 
•"^ POPULATION 
Fig. 10.— In the Northern States more than a third of the landlords reside on farms, while in the South 
the proportion is more than two-thirds. In the North about half of the landlords living in cities and 
villages are retired farmers 
and South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas areas who resided 
more distantly than in an adjoining county resided on farms. Of all 
landlords replying from all the areas studied 43 per cent lived on 
farms. 
Comparing the different sections of the country, it appears that 
about two-thirds of the landlords of rented farms located in the 
southern areas reside on farms, whereas less than half of the landlords 
owning in the northern and eastern areas reside on farms (fig. 10) . 7 
Taking as a group the farm landlords of Ohio, Illinois, and Iowa, 30 
per cent resided on farms (Table 14). 
* This figure originally appeared in an article on Land ownership and tenancy. 
1923 Yearbook, p. 534. 
U. S. Dept. Agr. 
