The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-12
N1naRoEs IN UNrrEEp srATEs.

A bulletin on negroes in the United States will be issued at an early date by William J. Harris. director Of the census Department of Commerce, which will contain all the principal information obtained through the cen sus regarding the number and distrd- button of the negroes, their rate Of increase, their sex and age distribu- ton, and their marital condition Fig ures for illiteracy and school attend ance and the occupations of negroes will also be presented, as we'll as data on negroes in agriculture and on mortality among negroes. This. bull letfn is preliminary to detailed re- port on negroes in the United States to be Issued later, which will be a complete analytical presentation of the statistics concerning the negroes The bulletin will show that the mum Der of negroes in the United States (excIusive of outlying posses s4onsl in 1910 was 9,s27, ,763 and they formed 10.T per cent. of the total population. In 1900 the number of negroes was 8, ,853, ,944, or 11e per cent Of the total population of that date. The increase among the ne- groes during the decade was 993, ,769, or t1.2 per cent. as compared with an Increase of POS per cent. among the native whites and of BOT per cent
 
 growth of the negro population results from their own natural increase, l while the growth of the white popu-l lation is accelerated by the great in hux of immigrants and the high birth rate in immigration families.
 Of the total number of negroes in 1910 about one-fifth were reported as mulatto; that is having some white | blood The proportion that mulat-I toes formed of the total negro popu- latton increased from 12 per cent. in | 1870 to 15.2 per cent. in 189o. and POS per cent in 1910.
 Nearly three-fourths of the negroes (7s13&5S4. or 72.6 per cent.) were | rural dwellers, while about <one-fourtE1i f 12,689, ,229s or 27.4 per cent.1 lived in towns or cities of at least 2,500 in habitants. The negroes formed 14.5 per cent. of the rural population of | the United States, as compared with | 6.3 per cent of the urban. Tn the | southern states the great majority of the negroes lived in rural districas, while the negroes of the north and of the west a large proportion were city dwelIers.
 Of total of 2.s5s counties in the United States there were only no in which there were no negroes. and E there were 53 counties in 1910, as compared with 55 counties in 1900, in which 75 per cent. of the popula-
 
 ties in 1910 in which 50 per cent of the population was negro.
 In 1910 there were z.ss5, ,8s1 negro males in the United States. as com pared with 4.e41.se2 negro females, the number of males to 100 females thus being 98.9, as compared with a 1 ratio of 1o6 for the whites. The ne- groes were the only race in the Unit | ed States in which there were more females than males.
 Of the negroes 6 to g years of age, | -4s8, ,954 or 49.3 per cent. were re- ported as having attended school dur ing the school year 1909-1o; of those 10 to A years of age, 791,995, or 68.6 l per cent. were so reported; and of | those Is to 20 years of age, 33s,75o, | or 26-5 per cent. In each age group | the percentage of school attendance | was much lower for the negroes than | for the whites.
 Of the total number of negroes 10 | years of age and over, 2.227, 7S1, or [ BOA per cent, were reported as il- centage of i1literatecy was 5, being 3 l among native whites and 12.7 among foreign born whites. The percentage | of i1literacy among negroes decreased ] from 57.1 in 1890 to 44.5 in 1900, and [ to BOA in 1910.
 The total number of farms operat- ed by negroes in 1910 was 893,37o; of this number. 21s.972 were operat- ed by their owners, 672,964 by ten-t ants, and 1.434 by managers The | number of farms owned by negroes increased by 31,175. or 16.6 per cent. between 1900 and 1910 and the mum Der of negro tenants increased by 115, ,79O, or 2o.8 per cent, during the decade. The total value of farm property operated by negroes in 1910 was $1.144,1 900, as compared with S49s, ,941. .0oO in 1909, indicating that the value of agricultural property operated by negroes increased consid- erab1y more than twofo1d duxinS the