OWNERSHIP OF TENANT FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES 19 
There were 15,606 owners with rented farms aggregating in value 
$25,000 or over. Of these owners only 15 per cent lived in the 
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Fig. 5.— Less than two-tenths of 1 per cent of the owners of rented farms had 2,500 or more rented acres, 
but such owners as had that many had 10.5 per cent of the rented acreage. Of the 2,253 owners with 
2,500 or more rented acres 452 lived in California and 371 in Texas, whereas only 79 lived in Illinois and 
53 in Mississippi. The average holdings of each landlord with 2,500 or more rented acres contained 
8,660 acres worth $66,245 in 1900. The figures shows where the landlords owning the largest acreages 
lived. Their rented acreage may have been partly or wholly in some other part of the United States 
Resident Owners in Each State owning Rented Farms 
aggregating $25,000 or more in value, 1900 
Fig. 6— In 1900 only 15,606 persons owned rented farm real estate in the United States aggregating as much 
as $25,000 in value. Although they were only 1.2 per cent of the total number of owners they owned 
17-4 per cent of the value of the rented farm real estate. The figure shows where the landlords with 
holdings of the greatest value lived. Of the 15,606 owners whose rented farms exceeded $24,999 in value 
4,403 lived in Illinois, 1,545 in California, 1,317 in Iowa, and 1,194 in Pennsylvania. Only 2,350 lived 
in the South 
South, whereas over 57 per cent lived in the North Central States 
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