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TENANT FARMER'S SPECIAL. . i - . T ft . -.!$, . . . i . . . .f -i ,i - ... Vol. XXVIII. :Na 42. A Farm and Home Weekly For the Carolinas, VirWnisb ru uiiice. 1 1 UUJNDED, 1886, AT RALEIGH, N C. SAI UKDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1913. Weekly : $1 a Yean The Marmingrease of Tenancy in the South. TMIE alarming arrest the attention of all men interested in the future of the c?un?ry And ft the situation is alarming in the Nation at large, it is far more serious in our own Southern States. Every decade sees a marked increase in the number of men farming the lands of others, a marked decrease in the number of those who own their own homes. Gloomy indeed are the forebodings to which these figures give rise. Is agriculture to become like manufacturing an industry in which the profits go to a few great capitalists for whom the rest of the people are only hirelings? Is the country home, thes fountain head of our National Strength and character, to decay under the subtle blight of tenancy ? Is the development of great estates cultivated by landless Jaborers is this condition to prove the ruin bf2:Amerjc ancient Italy, is it has'made Irish history a long nightmare; as it has crushed the lives millions in Russia, and as it has all but destroyed hope the heartSK Mexico's toiling masses ? :-i:r .: ': , - '' ' ; V Perps.tn Perhaps we shall yet find a xemedy;. But certainly ho man with both eyes open can fail to think seriously as' be examines the c official census figures as issued by the United Stes Government and set forth in the diagrams and tables given herewith- ; The official 1910 census volume on Agriculture" has not yet' been issued, but from preliminary State bulletins in our; hands we have 'prepared the following significant table for this issue of The Pro gressive Farmer. This table shows the percentage of farmers who were tenants in 1880, 1890, 1900r and 1910 in each State indicated. Notice the steady increase, decade by decade, of the proportion of homeless farmers in every State in the South with the exception of Virginia and Florida, In these two States conditions have been improved by the coming of Northern' and Western farmers; whereas this effect of immi gration in Texas has been more than offset by the breaking of the ranches into farms and smaller tenant farms. . PERCENTAGE OF FARMERS WHO WERE TENANTS. . 18S0 1890 1900 1910 United Slates ......I.. 25.6- 28.4 . S5.3 37.0 'Virginia ' 29.5 26 9 30.7. ' 28.5 North Carolina .. 33.5 . 34.1 41.4 42.3 South Carolina 50.S 55.3 61.1 63,0 Georgia ....I....... ......I. . .44.9 '. , ; 53.6 ,v ; 5.9.9 V 65,6 Florida....?.. ......... "30.9 . 23.6 28.5 . 26 7 Alabama 46.8 ; 48.6 57.7 -60.2 v Mliiisippl.....t 43.8 , 52 8 62.4 66.1 -.eBniiW,....;.....:.... 34.5 30.8 40.6 41.1 " vAranittV.V-.li:.,V.-.-..- 30.9 32.1 45.4- ' 60.0 Lou is Un 4. .iS5.2 44.4 58.0 65.3 - Texas.i .....1..'..'.:;:. ' 37.6 . 4.19 49.7 62.6 , In North Carolina 42 farmers in each 100 are now tenants as com pared With 33 in each 100 in 1880; in South Carolina 63 in each 100 are now tenants'ss compared 50 in each 100 in 1880; in Georgia 65 now as compared with ii. then ; in Alabama 60 as compared with 46 then; iii Mississippi 66 as cdiiiplired with 43 then ; in Tennessee 41 as compared with 34 then; inyArkansa50,now as compare with 30 then ; in Louisi ana 55 as compared with 35 then ;' in. Tex'as 52 now as compared with 37 then. ": " ym,': : . Such a situation calls indeed for the most serious attention we can give it: . MAINS ! ' W f - m ,.m ,. ' ' 1 ' ' 1 1 1 1 " 1 l I ". i I irzj-zn: - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 pi -4-- ! -! : ' 1 ''pr HUM, 1 ' I I 'E M..., -' rvr 1 1 1 ' i i.::f.:::r;,.'.,i...,....i....: ''m . "X ' 1 ''' ' "'. 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T?.bl5.ck 1 indicates the proportion of farmers in each Slate who own the farms they till ; the checked lines indicate the proportion of tenants. (An intermediate desig nation indicates the number of managers.) Notice how, when one reaches our Southern States in this diagram, the checked line of tenancy increases. When we come to consider not only the present plight of these States with regard to tenancy, but its startling increase since 1880 as shown by the table, the situation becomes even more serious. FEATURES OF THIS ISSUE. .Buy A Home The South is the Place to Get It . . . . .10 Co-operative Truck Marketing:-An Alabama Association's Work 1 9 ; Farm Tenancy: Our Biggest Problem-A Striking Presentation of the Facts in the Case 5 Mrs Hutt on Dress-Good Points of Present Styles ... . . 12 Make the Tenant Your Partner-Good Advice by Mr. Green . 20 Quack Doctors of Agriculture-Much Advice by Men Who Know Little .... . . . 3 State Aid for Tenants-Land Credits and Taxation Problems .' .9,15 Successful Tenant Syttem-Four of Them Outlined . .7,14 Tenant Farmers', Experiences First-Hand Information . V . 6 Virginia State Fair-Our Special Correspondent's Report . . . 25 What Land-OwnersThink-CompareWitfV Letters of Farm Tenants 8 .V . ... Ir ti ):. ji.- ":. 'uiiv'ii' s ''.-1 i ; r ( ' 1 v ! . : . 1 ) l ill 11:. .11 1 - 1 - - -- I
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