The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-03
FARMS AND HOMES
THEIR OWNERS OWN OVER 90 PER
CENT. of THE CoUNTRY's WEALTH.
Statistics Prepared by the Census
Omce-Seeds for Nebraska Drought
SuGerers-Capital Notes.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The Census Of
flee made public to-day report showing
that the owners of farms and homes. re-
garded as substantially the land owners OF
the United States, own more than so per
cent. of the wealth of the country. OF the
white owners and tenant heads more than
81 per cent. are owners; of the negroes
more than IL per cent. of mixed white ana
negro parentage, % per cent; of Indians,
Go, and of the Chinese and Japanese IA
The white owners of farms and homes that
are free of mortgage form II per cent OF all
white owners; of the negroes, 81; or those
of mixed parentage. ST; of the Indians, 10.
and of the Chinese and Japanese, " per
cent. The percentages of ownership are
slightly higher for women than for men,
and free ownership is also higher among
women, except with the Indians and Chinese
and Japanese.
The results for farm proprietors show that
~ per cent. of the whites are owners, Il
of the negroes, 20 of mixed blood, 70 of the
Indians, and over 10 per cent. of the Chinese
and Japanese, while for homes 80 per cent
of the whites are owners, more than
10 of the negroes, % of those OF mixed
blood, SO of the Indians and IA OF the
Chinese and Japanese. The white farm own
ers who are free of mortgage are II per
cent of all white owners negroes, 80; of
and Chinese and Japanese, 81. The corre-
spending figures for homes are nearly the
same In the fifty-eight cities of fifty thou
sand population and over almost % per
cent. of the white proprietors are owners
and not quite per cent of the negroes.
For farms and homes SO per cent OF the
native proprietors are owners; from Aus
tria-Hungary, Al per cent; from Canada
and Newfoundland (English) AZ; from Can
ada and Newfoundland fErencl), 81, w dleS
and England i6; France, AZ; Germany, oz.
Ireland, A. Italy, Is; NORWAY, sweden anu
land, 49, and from all other countries over
AZ per cent. The native farm proprietors
are exceeded in ownership by the natives
of all of these countries, except Italy, whose
percentage for native owners is g. and for
the Italians 6S; and the highest percentage
is 81 for the Irish. Ownership is more preva-
lent among native than among foreign-Dorn
among farm proprietors. or the native pro-
1 prfetorS of homes, II per cent. are owners
and the lowest percentage representing the
ownership of homes for places OF blrth IS
u for the Italians. The ownership of homes
in the eight principal cities Is nearly as
great among the foreign-born as among the
natives. Among the native home proprie-
tors in these cities % per cent are owners.
The highest percentage being 32 for the
Germans and the lowest for the Italians.
The results of the inquiry as to nativity
of parents of the white native farm and
home proprietors shows that for farms and
homes % per cent of the proprietors VINO
have both parents native born, are owners.
both parents native born The percentages
for farm owners having both parents native
born lis So, and in the of homes AZ per
cent. The total for both sexes and for farms
and homes show that OF the proprietors un-
der twenty-five years of age 20 per cent.
are owners: from twenty-five to twenty
nine years, % Per cent; from thirty to thir
nine years. ~; forty to forty-four years,
40; forty-five to forty mine years, SO; fifty
to fifty-four years, 81: ffty-five to fifty
nine years, 63; sixty years and over, 50 per
cent. Percentages are generally somewhat
higher for women than for men. Farm
ownership is more prevalent al, all ages
than home ownership. Almost 80 per cent
of farm propretors under twenty-five years
of age are owners and the percentage in
creaSes with age up to SO per cent. for own
efS Of sixty years and over. Among home
propr!etcrS of less than twenty-five years
or age, IL per cent are owners and the per-
centage increases without interruption to So
over
Ownership is more prevalent among wom-
en- VINO are farm and home owners and
homes of tenant families than among men,
the ownership of the women being repre-
Sented by 81 per cent. and the men 46. The
women exceed the men also in the fifty
eight principal cities, where of the male
home proprietors % per cent. are owners
and of the female 81 per cent. One reason
for the difference between the figures for
the two sexes is the custom that makes
the husband instead of the wife the head
of the family. The ownership of farms and
homes is divided between the two sexes in
and IL to the females. Slightly more than
one quarter of the 2.92S67l owned homes Of
the United States owned by women and
about one-tenth of 3, TAG owned farms