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BULLETIN 1432, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
The 1,934,346 rented farms belonging to the 1,257,716 owners were 
worth $4,518,881,942 in 1900 and contained 184,658,190 acres. 
Grouping this property according as the landlords owned (1) a given 
number of rented farms, (2) a given number of rented acres, (3) 
rented property worth a given number of dollars, the percentages 
were obtained from which Figure 7 was constructed. Among other 
things this figure shows that the 3.3 per cent of the landlords who 
had five or more rented farms owned 21.6 per cent of the rented 
farms; that the 3.4 per cent of the landlords who had 500 or more 
rented acres owned 29.2 per cent of the rented acreage; and that 
RENTED FARM PROPERTY OWNED BY LANDLORDS WITH SPECIFIED AMOUNTS, 
UNITED STATES, 1900 
LANDLORDS HOLDING 
RENTED FARMS 
2 or more 
10 - \9 
5-9 
3-4 
2 
I 
ACRES OF RENTED FARMS 
2,500 or more 10.5 
1,000 - 2,499 7.4 
500 - 999 M.3 
200 - 499 29.0 
100 - 199 
Under l 00 
VALUE OF HOLDINGS OF 
RENTED FARMS 
$25,000 or more 
10,000-24.999 
5.000 - 9,999 
2,000 - 4.999 
1,000 - 1.999 
Under 1. 000 
PER CENT OF RENTED FARMS 
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 
5.9 
■ 
6.0 
■ 
9.7 
11.6 
■ 
14.8 
52.0 
1 I' 
-1 
PERCENT OF FARM LANDLORDS 
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 
0.3 
0.7 
2.3 
5.4 
11.3 
so.o 
I 
■ 
1,934,346 RENTED TARMS 
I 
184, 658,190 RENTED ACRES 
,257 
716 
OWNERS 
0.2 
0.7 
2.5 
1 
14.8 
■H 
26.4 
55.4 
1 1 1 1 1 
.257 
,716 
OWNERS 
': 2 
I 
6.9 
■ 
13.2 
1 
24.1 
15.6 
38.6 
1 
PROPERTY VALUE $4£I6£8I,942 
I.2S7.7I6 OWNERS 
Fig. 7.— The rented farms belonging to owners with one rented farm constituted 52 per cent of the rented 
farms and their owners 80 per cent of the owners of rented farms. One per cent of the owners had 10 or 
more rented farms and their farms constituted 11.9 per cent of all the rented farms. Less than 1 per cent 
of the owners had 1,000 or more rented acres, but such owners had 17.9 per cent of the rented acreage. 
The holdings of 38.8 per cent of the landlords did not exceed $1,000 in value 
the 8.1 per cent of the landlords whose holdings of rented farms were 
worth $10,000 or more owned 43.8 per cent of the value of all the 
rented farms of reported ownership. 
RESIDENCE OF LANDLORDS AND EXTENT OF ABSENTEEISM 
ABSENTEEISM MEASURED BY RELATION OF RESIDENCE AND LAND OWNERSHIP 
To what extent do landlords of the rented farms of this country 
live near enough to their farms to exercise adequate control? Land- 
lords who can visit their farms readily are more likely to be acquainted 
