general way it may be said that the control of part owners over Illinois farming is greatest in Southern Illinois, average in Central Illinois, and least in Northern Illinois.

The percentage of the "partly owned" land that was hired in 1910 varied from 30.2 in the case of Hardin county to 55.2 in Vermilion county. The counties in which over 50.0 per cent of the land in farms of part owners was hired were in the East Central part of the state. Those in which less than 40.0 per cent of the land in partly owned farms was rented were in the Southern part of the state. The average for the state was 44.7 per cent. A map is presented showing the percentage of the total farm land in each of 99 counties that was leased by part owners in 1910. The smallest percentage was 1.6, found in DuPage and Kane counties, and the largest percentage was that of Edwards county, 14.8. The counties in which over 9.0 per cent of the farm land was hired by part owners were confined almost entirely to the Southeastern quarter of the state. Very low percentages occurred in the extreme Southern and Northern ends of the state. The average for the state was 7.43 per cent.

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Another map shows the percentage of all land in the 99 counties hired by tenants and by part owners in 1910. The county with the smallest percentage of its farm land operated under lease was Hardin, the percentage being 21.6. In Jo Daviess and in Pope and Johnson counties the percentages were less than 30.035 In Ford county 75.4 and in Logan county 72.4 per cent of the farm land was hired. Nineteen counties had over 60.0 per cent of their farm land hired. These counties, with the exception of Whiteside, lay in the Central and East Central part of the state.

The land to which part owners held deeds constituted 9.73 per cent of the total farm acreage of the state. In DuPage county the percentage of the farm land owned by part owners was but 1.4, while in Jasper county it was 21.8. The percentages throughout Southern Illinois, except St. Clair county and the extreme Southern tip, were above the state average. In a rough way it may be said that the amount of land owned by part owners decreases the farther north one goes in the state.

Owners proper operated 37.54 per cent of the land in Illinois

33 In the Northwest corner of the state.

34 In the Southern tip of the state.

35 Massac county would probably come in the same class had we the data for it.