A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Pig. 113.—This map shows the relative extent of tenancy from the standpoint ofImproved land. The principal areas having over 60 per cent of the improved landoperated by tenants are the richest portiohs of the Corn Belt and of the Cotton Belt(see Figs. 22 and 24). These are our most productive areas (see Fig. 21), in which manyof the farmers or planters can afford to retire to town and be supported by the rent oftheir farms. The small proportion of Improved land operated by tenants in the hills ofNew England, i
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Pig. 113.—This map shows the relative extent of tenancy from the standpoint ofImproved land. The principal areas having over 60 per cent of the improved landoperated by tenants are the richest portiohs of the Corn Belt and of the Cotton Belt(see Figs. 22 and 24). These are our most productive areas (see Fig. 21), in which manyof the farmers or planters can afford to retire to town and be supported by the rent oftheir farms. The small proportion of Improved land operated by tenants in the hills ofNew England, in the southern Appalachian Mountains, on the sandy lower coastal plainof the South, and in the arid areas of the West is noteworthy. 500 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, Fig. 114.—The largest number of farms operated by white owners is found among theGermans of southeastern Pennsylvania and eastern Wisconsin, the mountaineers of west-ern Pennsylvania and the southern Appalachians, and the pioneers in the West. Thefewer number of farm owner-operators in the prairie portion of the Corn Belt, as com-pared with the originally forested portion (see Fig. 7), is noteworthy. This is due, inpart, to the larger, consequently fewer, farms (see Fig. 102), and in part to the largerproportion of tenants (see Fig. 112). The thinner distribution in northern New England,the upper Lakes region, and the West is owing to fewer farms eind not to a smaller pro-portion of farms operated by owners (see Fig. 113).
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