Number occupied in agriculture Per cent of all persons occupied
Males Females Both sexes Males Females Both sexes
1880… 7,068,658 594,385 7,663,043 47.9 22.5 44.1
1890… 7,787,539 678,824 8,466,363 41.4 17.3 37.2
1900… 9,272,315 977,336 10,249,651 39.0 18.4 35.3
1910…10,582,039 1,806,584 12,388,623 35.2 22.4 32.5
]
[Footnote 5: See further, ch. 26, secs. 1 and 2 on the size of farms as an economic factor.]
[Footnote 6: See above, sec. 2, on the distinction between rural and agricultural. In part the change here noted results from increases in the population of towns and incorporated places from a little below 2500 to something about 2500. For example, if there were 2499 persons in a town in 1900 they would all be classified as rural; if in 1910 there were 2500 or more they would all be classified as urban.]
[Footnote 7: Sec Vol. I, p. 225, and note 11.]
[Footnote 8: See Vol. I, p. 206.]
[Footnote 9: See Vol. I, p. 227, note, for figures on owners and farm laborers.]
CHAPTER 26
PROBLEMS OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
§ 1. Size of farms, and total farming area. § 2. Influences acting upon the size of farms. § 3. Self-sufficing versus commercial farming. § 4. Farming viewed as a capitalistic enterprise. § 5. Diversified versus specialized farming. § 6. Conditions favoring diversified farming. § 7. Intensive farming in Europe and America. § 8. Prospect of more intensive cultivation of land in America. § 9. The new agriculture. § 10. Difficulty of coöperation among farmers. § 11. Rapid growth of farmers' selling coöperation. § 12. Some economic features of farmers' selling coöperation. § 13. Coöperation in buying. § 14. Need of agricultural credit. § 15. Recent provisions for farm loans.