LoN L. Swift TABLE 11. PER CENT. OF THE NUMBER OP RENTED FARMS CLASSIFIED BY THE NUMBER OF FARMS OWNED BY ONE PERSON. (*) 3 and 5 and 10 and Geographical 1 2 under under under 20 Farms Divisions. Farna. Farms. 5 Farms 10 Farms 20 Farms and over. United States. Western Div'n 52.0 14.8 11.6 9.7 6.0 5.9 76.6 10.0 5.3 3.7 2.3 2.1 70.0 11.0 07.0 05.0 04.0 03.0 Washington.. . 82.0 09.0 04.0 02.0 01.0 02.0 86.0 08.0 04.0 01.0 01.0 In Oregon, 94 per cent of the owners of rented farms owned only one farm, while 5 per cent owned two farms, leaving only one per cent who owned more than twO' farms. Land- lordism in 1900 was practically unknown in this State. Yet, for the reasons given above, landlordism may increase in the future, and it will be interesting to note what change reports for the next decade and those immediately following will bring. The United States shows a much larger proportion of land- lordism than the newer states of the Western Division ; but as Prof. Taylor points out, this condition is largely, if not wholly, due to the peculiar conditions in the South, where landlordism has succeeded large slave plantations. t Landed capitalists in a country like ours is a class to be guarded against for the welfare of the commonwealth, and its increase will form a more complicated problem with tenant farming that now exists, which is not the best form of farming even when guided by the personal relation now existing between landowner and tenant.
- U. S. Census Reports for 1900, Twelfth Census, Vol. V, pp. 312-313.
tProf. Taylor's "Agricultural Economics," pp. 259-260.----
