The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-08-18

| from the first census in 1890 to that
of 1900.
Census popH g[S P C. Census. popH hfGe Pe
I ISSo $ $t as 80 ls9 2S S3a 23S
lSlO......... PSO,5i6 ia lS7O...... 7S0,S6i 1870
| lS20......... 401,350 30 1Ss0....... 93i943 1871
i iSIS i isoSS 81 81 i IS i Tss 6
In 1880 Maryland was the sixth
State in the Union in population In
1900, although its inhabitants were
81 times as numerous, it had dropped
/ to the Goth rank, owing to the rapid
/ growth of the new States in the Mis-
sissippi Valley. In 1900 the average
density of population was 800 persons
to the square mile. 1t has five cities
which exceed 5000 inhabitants, of
which Baltimore has over half mil
lion. The other four are as follows:
Cumberland, 17.13S; Hagerstown,
1851 Frederick, 1926. and Annap-
oils, the capital. S,525. These five
cities contain 1863 per cent. of the
population of the entire State. In
cities of more than $500 inhabitants
| live 1873 per cent, or nearly one-half
of the population of the State, while
the remainder-51. per cent.-may
be regarded as rural. In 1900 the
population was divided almost equally
between the two sexes, 1876 per cent.
being males and 80 per cent. being
females.
THE negro population, though
large for a border State, is diminish
ing in proportion to the whites. In
1900 the whites formed 500 per cent.
and the negroes 1913 per cent, or
nearly one-fifth of the population.
The number of foreign-born inhabi-
tants was also small, the persons of
native birth forming 92.1 per cent,
while those born i'll. foreign countries
were 10 per cent. immigration from
other States has not been large, since
it is found that of the native popula-
ton 10 per cent. were born in other
States.
For a State containing so large a
proportion of negroes the illiteracy
is slight. In 1900 persons of ten years
of age and upward who were unable
to read and write constituted Ill per
cent of the population. The illiterates
comprised only Al per cent of the ma
tive whites over 10 years old, 1874 per
cent. of the foreign born and 35.1 per
cent of the negroes.
"Of persons 10 years ole and up
ward practically one-half, or exactly
1913 per cent, were engaged in gainful
occupations. OF males 70 per cent.
were wage-earners of females, 81 per
cent. The following table shows the
proportion of wage-earners employed
in each of the FIVE general classes of
occupations
acknowledgements. ..... 2OS per cent.
PROFESSIONS ~ per cent.
Domestic and postal service POI per cent.
Trade and transportation. 1919 per cent.
Manufacturing and mining. 290 per cent.
agriculture is one of the leading
occupations. In 1900 the State con-
tanned 46,021 farms, of which seven
eighths were occupied by white farm
ers and one-eighth by negro farmers.
Two-thirds of the farms were owned
by their occupants and one-third were
rented either for money rental or on
shares of the products. The farms
had "a total area of 5,170,075 acres.
The cultivated area amounted to
3,516.352 acres, or more than two
thirds of the farm area and 55.7 per
cent of the area of the State. The
average size of the farms was 1924
acres being considerably less than the
average for the United States. The
total value of all the farms was $780,
645,407, which was made up of the
following items
Land ..''.Sl@O,UOU5
buildings ..'........... 54olU,i6O
Implements and machinery........." S6l1,220
Live stock 2OS55,SI7
Average value per farm................... 4,44S
Average value products per farm. 952
1.-The product amounted to 21.00 per
cent. of the value of the farms, and
may be regarded as the farming
profit. The following table shows
the amount of live stock in the State.