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situated in the same or in different enumeration dis- 
tricts, and may be held under different tenures, as where 
one tract is owned by the farmer and another tract leased 
by him. 
For example, if A B operates or cultivates under 
his personal management one tract of 60 acres in one 
place and another tract of 30 acres in another place, these 
two separate tracts constitute one farm of 90 acres. 
But if A B owns 90 acres of land in one tract but culti- 
vates under his personal management only 60 acres of 
such tract and leases the other 30 acres to another person, 
C D, the farm of A B consists of but 60 acres — that is, 
the number of acres actually farmed or operated by him, 
the remaining 30 acres constituting the farm, or part of 
the farm, of C D. Or, again, if A B owns 90 acres of 
land which he ordinarily considers as “his farm,” but 
leases 30 acres from C D, then the farm of A B consists of 
120 acres — that is, the total number of acres actually 
farmed by him. 
Ranches using public lands. The farm of ranchmen 
using the public domain includes only the land which he 
owns or leases. If he leases public land or any other land, 
such land is a part of his farm. But his farm does not 
include any public land for which he pays no rental or 
upon which live stock are grazed at a fixed, charge per 
head. Across the head of schedules for farms and 
ranches using public lands for grazing live stock write 
RANGE in large letters. In cases where cattle are grazed 
wholly upon the public domain and the owner of the ani- 
mals does not own or lease any land, fill out a schedule for 
the owner the same as for any ordinary farm operator, 
omitting answers, however, to Inquiries 10 to 15 and writ- 
ing in answer to Inquiry 6 the words “No land owned 
or leased.” 
When we include from a farm public land for which a 
farmer “pays no rental or upon which live stock are grazed 
at a fixed charge per head” we decrease, to that extent, the 
area of land from which he derives a living and his farm 
cannot be directly compared with one having no free range. 
METHOD OF CALCULATING THE SIZE OF FARM IN THE GREAT PLAINS 
REGION 
For western Nebraska the Thirteenth Census reports 
that less than two-thirds of the total area of land was oc- 
