Other Income

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Other Income [Abstract]

Other Income

Note 10. Other Income

Other income consists primarily of rents, dividends, interest and realized marketable security activity. The components of other income for the three years ended December 31 are as follows:

	2017	2018	2019
Rents	$7,012,603	$8,459,277	$5,038,467
Dividends	13,078,062	12,004,775	13,259,412
Interest	203,617	737,103	752,533
Security gains (losses)	17,464,043	(272,229)	2,945,147
Fixed asset gains (losses)	864,217	5,051,453	(532,297)
Other income	$38,622,542	$25,980,379	$21,463,262