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BULLETIN 1432, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
CONCENTRATION OF OWNERSHIP IN 1900 
Of a total of 2,024,964 farms listed by the 1900 census as rented 
to tenants who owned none of the land which they farmed, the name 
and address of the owner or owners were ascertained for 1,934,346 
farms, a study of which indicated that these farms were the property 
Percentage of rented Farms owned by Persons owning 
.five or more rented farms in the county, 1920 
Pig. 3. — In the Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Carolina counties studied a considerable proportion 
of the rented farms were in the hands of landlords with five or more rented farms 
Resident Owners in Each State who Possessed 
20 rented farms or more, 1900 
Fig. 4.— Only three-tenths of 1 per cent of the owners of rented farms in 1900 had 20 or more rented farms, 
but such owners owned 5.9 per cent of the rented farms. A very large proportion of the owners with 
20 or more rented farms lived in the South. Of the 3,244 such owners, 719 lived in Mississippi and 544 
lived in Alabama. The figure shows where the landlords with the most farms lived. Their rented 
farms may have been partly or even altogether in some other part of the United States 
of 1,257,716 separate owners. There were only 3,244 owners who 
had 20 or more rented farms, and of this number 3,036 lived in the 
South (fig. 4). There were 2,253 owners who had 2,500 or more 
rented acres, and half of these owners lived in the South (fig. 5.). 
