Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-15
TREND FROM FARM TO
 FACTORY STILL CONTINUES

Factory workers in the U. 5. now, | for the first time, exceed those engag- ed on the farms. The trend of the pop ulation of the United States from the | farm to the manufacturing and trans | portation centers is illustrated, says the Trade Record of The National City Bank of New York, by a com parison of some recent census figures of the number of persons engaged in gainful occupations" in the United States in 1920 with similar figures for earlier years. Analyses of the oc- equations of people of the country have been made at each decennial cen sus during the last half century and the official figures for 1920 show that while the number of persons gain fully occupied in agricultural lines wa sin 1920 less than double that of 1870 a half century earlier; the num- Der engaged in manufacturing and mechanical industries" was in round i terms five times as many as in 1879 and those engaged in trade and trans portation" six times as many as in 1870.
 The census bureau, however, sounds
 word of warning as to it's 1920 fig
 ures of persons engaged in "agricul-
 ture, forestry, and animal husbandry
 because of the fact that the census
 of 1920 was taken on January 1 while
 those of preceding censuses had been
 taken on April 15 when the number
 of persons employed on farms and in
 the forests was doubtless larger than
 on January l. The actual figures, how
 ever, for those engaged in agriculture, forestry and animal huSbandry" in- creased from 6,141.0O0 in 1870 to 10, 3S2,000 in 1900. 12,659,000 in 1910, and 10, ,951, 900 in 1920, suggesting that ev-
 ar oil l
 in the date of the taking of the cen
 sus, the number engaged in "agricul ture, forestry and animal husbandry'
 in 1920 was probably somewhat less
 than in 1910, while the number engag-
 ed in manufacturing and mechanical
 industries" grew from 2,451.OOO in 1870
 to 7,0S6,000 in 1900, 10.65S 900 in 1910. and 12,S12 900 in 1920. making it quite
 clear that irrespective of the change
 in date of the census of agricultural occupations, the growth in the num- Der of those engaged in manufactur-
 ing is far greater than those engaged
 along agricultural lines.
 In the group showing the number
 engaged in trade and transportation
 there is a stin larger percentage of
 increase than in manufacturing and far larger than that of agriculture the total number engaged in trade and transportation having advanced
 from 1,240,000 in 1870 to 4,767,00O in
 1900, 6,251,000 in 1910, and 1890. .O0t in 1920, these increases having been of course coincidental with the growth :, in railroads and other transportation 7 facilities, and in very recent years tho . use of the horseless vehicle for trans a portation as an adjunct to or in com.
 petition with the railways which hay; shown but little growth in very recen = years.
 Q The professions, which term include
 lawyers. literary and scientific per - sons, physicians, teachers, clergymen i musicians, actors architects, electri @ cians, engineers and journalists. alst r show great attraction and a large per. r centage of increase to their ranks
 the number having grown from S72,.
 900 in 1870 and 944, 900 in 1890 to l..
 259,000 in 1900, and 2,152000 in 1920 R The official figures of the number , of persons engaged under the classi- U fication domestic and personal ser /, vice" seem to justify in some degree at least the general assertion in re-
 cent years as to the conditions in thi! . line in every day life While it Is no
 possible, owing to an apparent chang, e in grouping, to compare figures o 2 the group domestic and personal ser
 vice. with those extending over thu v entire period covered by the other fig ures above quoted. the total number f employed in domestic and persona service in 1920 is materially less thar F in 1910. and is the only group show.
 ing an actual decline when comparing : 1920 with 1910, except in the case oi agriculture for which an explanation
 is above stated. The total number oi
 persons ten years of age and over em- ployed under the designation "domes- tic and personal service" was in 1920 3,4OO,0O0 against 3,772.000 ten year. : earlier. The number of females engag- ed in domestic and personal service 5 fell from 2,521,000 in 1910 to 2.1S40Ot in 1920, while the males engaged ir 2 domestic and personal service" show. | ed a much less reduction. from 1,241,- ' GOO in 1910 to 1.216,0O0 in 1920.
 ,, The increase in the number of per sons "gainfully employed" is much
 greater proportionately with womeI o than with men. The number of female! ' "gainfully employed" grew from 2.s47, t 900 in 1880 to S,594.000 in 1920, an in |, crease f 221 per cent. while the male i, ''gainfully employed increased iron 7 14,745,OO0 in 1880 to 3305s,0Oo, an in crease of but PA per cent.