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great mass is engaged in agriculture.* Any movement of 

 population in the rural districts is, therefore, closely related 

 to the conditions of farm life. 



Table 15. 



Negroes of Georgia 10 Years of Age and Over Engaged in 

 Gainful Occupations. 



Occupations Total Male Female 



Agriculture 410,266 257,974 152,292 



Manufacturing and Trades .... 43,933 39,309 4,624 



Domestic Service 100,809 14,615 86,194 



Transportation 22,869 22,865 4 



All other 37,659 31,849 5,810 



Total 615,536 366,612 248,924 



3. Local Migration. — One further fact is to be noted 

 before the study of migration is made by counties, namely, 

 that local movements, which are very hard to measure, and 

 yet which are of importance, take place within counties. 

 These cannot be measured by studying the increases and de- 

 creases of the county as a whole. The change from the 

 labor system to the tenant system of cultivating a single large 

 plantation often involves a local increase of considerable sig- 

 nificance. Usually the proportion who are young, single 

 men is higher among laborers than among tenants. A 

 change from laborers to tenants therefore means an increase 

 in the plantation population proportionate to the size of the 

 tenant families. On the other hand, the use of a large num- 

 ber of tenant farms for orchards, or for pasture land would 

 reduce the population of a local district. These local move- 

 ments are bewildering in their number and effects. 



Some idea of local increses can be gained by the figures 

 for the population of minor civil divisions of selected 

 counties. 5 



* Compiled from Census of 1910, Occupations, p. 449-450. 

 5 U. S. Census of 1900 and 1910. The census does not publish 



