People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1895 — American Tenants. [ARTICLE]

American Tenants.

Some time ago a writer in the North American Review made the statement that the United States is the largest tenant farmer nation in the world. Here is a list of the tenant farmers in some of the states as given by tinwriter: Missouri 39,87. Pennsylvania 45,§25 Maryland... 13,5:) Virginia 34,537 North Carolina 53,728 Georgia 02,175 West Virginia 13,000 Ohio 46.283 Indiana 40.050 Illinois 85,244 Michigan 15.411 lowa 45,1.74 Nebraska 11,49] Kentucky 44,027 Kansas 22,95} Tennessee •: 57,290 Mississippi..... 41,558 Arkansas ;. 26,13$ 'Texas 55,40;' Total 749,210 Here are twenty-one of our leading states with more tenement farmers than England, Ireland Scotland and Wales.