The increased families of the farming occupations, by having paid the average rent of $2.75 per acre, for the average of 136 acres of land per family,[147] have paid sums as follows: Table of Rent Paid for Land: 31,698 families in 7 years paid $ 82,985,364 31,698 families in 6 years paid 71,130,312 31,698 families in 5 years paid 59,275,260 31,698 families in 4 years paid 47,420,208 31,698 families in 3 years paid 35,565,156 31,698 families in 2 years paid 23,710,104 31,698 families in 1 year paid 11,855,052 ------- ------------ 221,886 Total $331,941,456 That’s what the increase of the homeless and landless population means. The newly formed families could neither avoid paying the rents in favor of the same landed and propertied rich; nor could they avoid paying indirect taxes in favor of the national government, as we shall soon see. And they could not avoid being the slaves of dividogenesure, nor of being victims of extortion by various trusts and monopolies. In making our final conclusion of the profits and losses, the above amounts of $669,224,136 worth of paid rents by the increased families will be included into the previous totals of house and land rents. But, in respect to all farmers’ rents and the average acreage, it should again be noticed that we have dealt only with minimums of their expenditure in favor of the land monopolies. [SN: INCREASE OF RENTED FARMS.] For, “according to the _abstract_ of the eleventh census (p. 97), farms cultivated by their owners increased 9.56 per cent; rented farms, 41.04 per cent, and farms rented for a share in product,[148] 19.65 per cent. In the north central division farms cultivated by their owners increased less than 1 per cent, while rented farms increased 66 per cent. In the North Atlantic division, rented farms increased only 6 per cent, while farms cultivated by their owners actually diminished. The farmers thus complain that they are losing possession of their farms and becoming tenant farmers.”[149]