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BULLETIN 1432,, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The data showed that rented farms owned by landlords resident 
beyond the county and adjoining counties, were larger in size and of 
greater value, on the average, than the rented farms owned by land- 
lords resident near by. In the areas covered by the 1920 studies land 
Percentage of Rented Farms owned by Landlords 
not resident in the county or any of 
the adjoining counties, 1920 
Fig. 9.— Regarding as absentee landlords those who lived beyond the limits of the county containing the 
land and of the adjoining counties the study showed that absentee owners had more than a fifth of the 
rented farms in many of the more western counties. Except Oklahoma, in none of the southern counties 
were as many as a fifth of the rented farms owned by absentees 
lords resident beyond the county and the adjoining counties owned 
7.5 per cent of the rented farms, 12.4 per cent of the rented acreage, 
and 11.2 per cent of the value of the rented farm land and buildings 
(Table 12). 
Table 12. — Extent to which rented farm property was owned by landlords not resi- 
dent in the county or in any of the adjoining counties, selected areas, 1920 
Areas of study 
Percentage of rented farm 
property owned by nonresi- 
dents. 
Location 
Counties 
Farms 
Acreage 
Value of 
land and 
buildings 
Total 
Group » 
Northeastern States. . 
Number 
19 
14 
85 
32 
12 
13 
9 
Number 
1,2,3,4 
15, 16, 17 
5-14 
18-24 
25, 26, 27 
28, 29, 30 
31 
Per cent 
4.8 
9.1 
10.8 
2.8 
5.6 
10.2 
15.6 
Per cent 
5.7 
12.4 
14.4 
4.4 
6.8 
14.8 
21.2 
Per cent 
5.1 
Chesapeake- Delaware peninsula 
11.8 
North Central States _. 
12.1 
Southeastern States _ . 
3.6 
South Central States 
6.0 
Southwest Central States 
11.1 
California 
18.7 
All areas studied 
184 
1-31 
7.5 
12.4 
11.2 
See footnote 4 on p. 3. 
In the study of the 1920 census data attention was given to the 
ownership of rented portions of 13,614 part-owner farms, farms 
operated by persons who owned a portion and rented the rest of the 
