OWNERSHIP OF TENANT FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES 11 
5 or more rented farms, and only 0.4 per cent owned 10 or more 
rented farms (Table 5). Of the owners of rented farms in the 14 
counties whose acreages were tabulated 24.5 per cent had at least 
200 rented acres, 5.1 per cent had 500 or more rented acres and 1.1 per 
cent had at least 1,000 rented acres (Table 7). The landlords with 
200 or more rented acres owned 60.7 per cent of the acreage, those 
with 500 or more had 26.4 per cent of the acreage, and those with 
1,000 or more had 11.1 per cent of the acreage (Table 8). In terms 
of value those landlords who had $10,000 or more of rented farm 
real estate held 79.3 per cent of the rented farm property indexed 
(Table 10). The landlords with that much property composed 39.8 
per cent of the landlords (Table 9). Those owners who had at least 
$75,000 of rented farm property numbered but 1.5 per cent of the 
landlords, bi»it the property they rented to tenants was worth 12 per 
cent of the rented farm property indexed by ownership (Tables 9 
and 10.) 
Comparing the several areas with regard to the percentage of 
rented farms owned by persons with 20 or more rented farms, it 
appears that in the five counties in the Yazoo Delta of Mississippi 
over half the rented farms are owned by such landlords, whereas in 
the three counties in the black prairie of Alabama over a third of the 
rented farms are so owned. The other areas in which over 5 per cent 
of the rented farms were owned by landlords with 20 or more rented 
farms were in the Carolinas, in Georgia, and in California (Table 6) . 
A comparison of the areas with regard to the percentage of rented 
acres owned by persons with 2,500 or more rented acres shows that 
the California area has 33.7 per cent thus owned; the Mississippi area, 
14 percent; the Louisiana area, 6.7 percent; the Alabama area, 6.4 per 
cent; and the Dakota area, 6.2 per cent (Table 8). 
In comparing the areas with regard to the percentage of the value 
of rented farm real estate owned by persons with at least $75,000 of 
such property, the Mississippi area heads the list with 65 per cent, 
followed by central California with 60.4 per cent, central Illinois with 
57.9 per cent, northwestern Iowa with 55.8 per cent, central Iowa 
with 41.3 per cent, northern Illinois with 35.1 per cent, and the blue- 
grass counties of Kentucky with 30.2 per cent (Table 10). 
