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Table showing total number and proportion of the inhabitants engaged in agricultural worlc, 

 as compared with those engaged in industrial and professional occupations in the Northern 

 and Western States — Continued. 



States. 



S p 

 ^ -*- 



a s 

 P.'S 



2 s » 



— - 



*1 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts . 

 Rhode Island — 

 Connecticut 



Sew York . 



Pennsylvania . . 



New Jersey 



Delaware 



Ohio 



Michigan 



Indiana 



Illinois 



"Wisconsin 



Minnesota 



Iowa 



Missouri 



Nebraska 



Nevada 



Colorado 



Dakota 



Utah 



Idaho 



Montana 



"Wyoming 



California 



Oregon 



Washincrton 



24, 738 



15, 666 

 23, 692 

 31, 019 



5,475 

 18, 934 



134, 562 



68, 897 

 29, 240 



8,131 



191, 063 

 64, 885 

 83, 949 



133, 649 

 50, 753 

 20, 277 



69, 821 

 86, 807 



5,899 



555 

 2, 659 



308 

 3,048 



720 



670 

 58 



16, 231 

 3,126 



742 



30.1 

 33.6 

 40.8 

 42.6 

 46.4 

 43.3 



35.9 

 26.4 

 46.3 

 50.9 



48.1 

 34.6 

 31.4 

 35.5 

 31.7 

 26.9 

 33.2 

 32.8 

 25.5 



26.8 

 41.1 

 12.2 

 29.2 

 49.2 

 31.7 

 35.1 



33.9 

 28.5 

 19.6 



208, 225 

 ISO, 108 

 108, 763 

 579, 844 

 88, 574 

 193, 421 



1, 491, 018 



1, 020, 544 



296, 036 



40, 313 



840, 889 

 404, 164 

 459, 369 

 742, 015 

 292, 808 

 132, 657 

 344, 276 

 505, 556 

 43,837 



26, 911 

 17, 583 



5,887 

 21, 517 

 10, 879 

 14, 048 



6,645 



238, 648 



30, 651 



9,760 



33.2 

 37.7 

 32.9 

 39.7 

 40.0 

 35.9 



34.0 

 28.9 

 32.6 

 32.2 



31.5 

 34.0 

 27.3 

 29.2 

 27.7 

 30.1 

 28.8 

 29.3 

 35.6 



63.3 

 44.1 

 41.5 

 24.8 

 72.5 

 68.2 

 72.9 



42.6 

 33.7 

 40.7 



31, 766 

 9,280 



10, 212 

 7.800 

 1,306 

 4,674 



47, 000 



46, 000 



8, 320 



2,120 



39, 964 

 56, 243 

 33, 809 

 55, 405 

 53, 924 

 83, 500 

 55, 045 

 67, 380 

 122, 007 



83,500 

 106, 475 

 318, 128 

 109, 600 



159, 000 



100, 000 



53, 924 



The relations between the proprietors or tenants of farms and labor- 

 ers in the beet growing sections of France are comparatively simple. 

 In many cases the family of the land-holder joins him in the labor re- 

 quired in the production, but in the great majority of cases he must 

 secure assistance from external sources. Sometimes laborers, men and 

 women, for hoeing, weeding, and pulling the crop, are employed by 

 the land-holder himself, and he performs the function of overseeing the 

 work in the fields, and this is the method generally pursued in sections 

 in which day laborers are easily obtained, but in sections in which labor 

 is scarce the contract system is resorted to, and the wort of cultivation 

 is intrusted to a single person at a given rate per acre, and this individ- 

 ual undertakes to find the laborers and do what is required. The rate 

 of pay for agricultural work varies from 50 to 90 cents per day for full- 

 bodied and adult laborers, being less for some women and children that 

 may be employed. 



But the relations between the producers and the manufacturers are 

 much more complicated in their character, and often give rise to serious 



