OCCUPATIONS. 5G3 



reduction is not apparent in the country at large results from the fact, 

 that immigrants, which count for nothing in South Carolina, have else- 

 where filled the gap ; and, furthermore, that the proportion of soldiers to 

 the population was far greater in Carolina than in the country at large. 

 The explanation of this tendency is that, with the development of civil- 

 ized life, industrial improvements render labor easier, so that the very 

 young and the very old may, by art, supply the vigor of adult lil'e and 

 become bread-winners. Nature has also assisted here, and in a genial 

 climate like that of South Carolina the young and the old may engage 

 in many kinds of labor, especially in agricultural labor, from which 

 much more robust workers would be precluded by the extremes of severer 

 seasons in more northern latitudes. 



Before examining in further detail the changes of occupation taking 

 place, attention is directed to the following table, copied from the eighth, 

 ninth and tenth census, showing the number of persons engaged in each 

 occupation, in which more than five hundred persons in South Carolina 

 were engaged, according to the census of 1880. 



