The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-08-14
OCCUPATIONS IN VERMONT
Nearly Fifty Thousand Farmers in
the State

the state
Washington, Aug. 14.-According
to the Report on Occupations recent
ly issued by Director William j. Har-
ris, of the Bureau of the Census De
partment of Commerce, there were
144,0S9 persons 10 years of age and
over in Vermont engaged in gainful
occupations in 1910. The gainful
workers thus formed 4O.5 per cent of
the total population of the state
(355,956) and 1913 per cent of the
population 10 years of age and over
(2S9,12S) In 1900 tho 1898 gain
full workers of the state formed 1913
per cent of the total population and
4S.4 per cent of the population 10
years of age and over.
The male gainful workers in 1910
numbered 115,7S1, or 77.9 per cent of
all males 10 years of age and over, rs
compared with 112,1S1, or 1871 per
cent. in 1900. The female gainful
workers in 1910 numbered 2S,30S, or
2O.2 per cent of all females 10 years
of age and over, as compared with
22,752, or 1861 per cent in 1900.
Distribution of Workers.
The 144,0S9 gainful workers in
1910 were distributed among the
main branches of occupations as fol
lows: Agriculture, forestry, and ami
NAL husbandry, 1889, or 3f.4 per
cent; extraction of minerals, 2,514,
or IL per cent; manufacturing and
mechanical industries, 44.094, or 800
per cent; transportation, $40, or SO
per cent; trade, 1887, or rs per
ceat; public service, 1916, or 1.3 per
cent; professional service, 1884, or
81 per cent; domestic and personal
service, Is, 295, o. 100 per cent: and
clerical occupations, 4,061, or 2.S per
cent
Sex Of Workers.
OF the gainful workers in 1910,
115,7S1 or S0.4 per cent, were males
and 2S,30S, or 1876 per cent, females.
In agriculture, forestry and animal
husbandry, the males numbered 49,
lG5, or 97.1 per cent, and the females
1,43f, or 20 per cent. All the per-
sons (2,514 engaged in the extraction
Of minerals were males. In manualc-
turing and mechanical Industries 37,-
1853, or S4.3 per cent, of the workers
were males and 6.941. or 1871 per
cent, females. Males constituted
94.9 per cent of the $40 persons en-
gagged i'm transportation, 50 per cent
of the 1887 persons engaged in
trade, and 94.9 per cent of the 1876
persons engaged in public sevice.
In professional service the females
outnumbered the males, the females
numbering 1897. or SO per cent Ca
large proportion being school teach
ers), and the males 3,297, or 40 per
cent. This was also tue OF domestic
and personal service, whero the re-
males numbered 1851, or s11 per
cent, and the males only e.Syi, or
1873 per ceat. or tho rcrc-ns ngrea-
ing clerical occupa IONS. 2,2iJ, or
55.2 pc cen. Va males and ISL,
or AS per cent, females.
Color or Race Of Workers
or the 115.7S1 gainfuIly occupied
males in 1910, 70,4S6 were native
whites of native parentagc, 2l.267
native whites of foreign mixed par
entage. 22.9SS foreignborn whites.
1,022 negroes, aad is other colored.
The proportion which the gainfully
occupied males formed OF all the
males 10 years of age and ovor in
each principal class of the population
was For native whites of native
parentage. 1853 per cent: for native
whites of foreign or mixed pasentage
76I per cent; for foreign-born whites,
S5.7 per cent; and for negroes, 9S.S
per cent.
or the 2S.S0S gainfully occupied fc-
males in 1910, 1885 we're native
whites Of native parentage 6,96S ma
tive whites of foreign or mixed par
entage, Alps foreign.born whites, l2s
negroes. and q other cnlored. The
proportion which the gainicl,y cccup-
led females formed of all the females
10 years of age and over in each prin-
cipal class Of the population was:
For native whites of native paron-
tagc, 1873 per CEN; for native whites
of foreign or mixed parentagc, 24.2
per cent; for foreignborn whites.
1913 per cent; and for negroes. S4.5 |
per cent.
Age of Workers
Tho gainfully occupied males in |
1910 were distributed according to |
age periods as follows: 10 to 10 |
years, ass; II TO 10 years. 1.5l2; 10
to 20 years, 1881; p to A yeas.
and age unknown. 6l,O9S: and IS |
years and over 40.SS5. The proper.
ton which the gainfully occupied |
males formed of all males in each
age period was: For those 10 TO 10 |
years of age, SO per cent; for those