South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-07-12
FARMERS HEAD
LIST OF WORKERS
Agriculture Has Long Record
Over All the Industrial
0cCupatlOnal Groups.

Farmers are evincing a DISPOSE.
ton to organize as farmers and for
agriculture on broader scale than
before. and comparison Of the agri-
cultural group with other occupa-
tional groups has a new feature Of
interest Farmers have been COM
bining 20 sell oranges and potatoes.
20 make butter and cheese. 20 dis
cuss problems Of horticulture. TO
place their interests" before legis-
lative bodies. 20 maintain fraternal
relationships. to enforce "a political
program. and in various other ways
with cleavage determined by the
activity.
Now the county farm bureau has
arisen 20 com bine and associate for
common Industrial purposes all per-
sons engaged in agriculture. and
these bureaus are forming state or
CARNATIONS. The track that they
are following leads 20 the solidarity
OF agricultural occupations in zen
eral These related occupations
greatly predominant over every
other group. or related group. OF
occupations, according 10 the latest
census
Nearly Third Occupied.
AS an industrial group the agri-
cultural occupations in 1910 contain
ed 3s.5 per cent OF all persons re-
ported as having occupations. and
the women OF the white farmers
family were not usually included.
The group embracing wholesale, re-
tail. and other trade occupations
contained ia per cent OF the grand
total OF more than 3S.0O0,0 900 per-
sons in the occupation list; next be-
low. domestic and personal service,
So per cent, laundries not included;
the composite group Of building and
hand trades, SO per cent.
The transportation group is COM
posed Of all persons employed in
water transportation, by steam rail-
roads. by urban. suburban, and in
terurban railways, BY telegraph and
telephone companies, and in various
other services, yet the total of all is
but 81 per cent Of the entire occu-
patlonal total The professional
service group had As per cent Of
all persons with occupations.
The iron and steel industries. not
withstanding their place OF high i'm
portanCe. employed Onlp per cent;
mining Of ali kinds. "a per cent;
the textile industries. great in fame.
% per cent; the lumber and furni-
ture group. as little as 81 per cent.
Balances Groups.
A. far as uuu,b hers arc cOncarpad
the agricultural group, containing
nearly One-third Of the $4,000, 900
persons with occupations. was large
enough to- balance all Of the build
ing and hand trades: the important
transportation group OF steam and
electric railways, water transpOrta-
ton. telegraphs and telephones. and
other groups; the professional class
es; the iron and steel industries; all
kinds Of mining; cotton, wool. and
other textile industries: and the
lumb and furniture Industries. Ag-
riculture balances all OF these many
and important industries and serv-
ices
For every person employed in
trade. there were three persons en-
ployed in agriculture I'm 1910; for
each one in transportation, four in
agriculture; for each emplOye in the
iron and steel industry, with it's
many branches and elaborate vari-
cites OF work, eight persons in agri-
culture; In all of the textile indus
tries. one person to Il in agricuI-
ture.