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"Of the 17 colored churches, five have pastors on half 

 time, six have pastors serving 2 others or one-third time, 6 

 have pastors with 3 others or one-fourth time. It will be 

 noticed that while there is a large number of colored 

 churches considering the size and the population of the 

 county, four of them have less than 100 members. Some 

 of these could be combined so as to have services three 

 Sundays every month, if not four." 



The consideration of the Negro rural church therefore 

 demands an appreciation of the shifts of the population of 

 its surrounding area, — whether its congregation is drift- 

 ing away or whether it is increasing through migration, 

 whether its books are burdened with a number of mem* 

 bers who have moved off and are attending church else- 

 where, whether it has a large number of regular attend- 

 ants who are members of distant churches, and whether, 

 if it is shrinking up, it cannot be combined with some 

 neighboring church which is also diminishing in impor- 

 tance. 



Educational Institutions. — One of the most noticeable 

 effects of migration on Negro schools is in the disturbance 

 of attendance. During the cotton chopping and picking 

 months in the spring and fall, so many Negro children 

 work in the fields that the attendance on rural schools 

 dwindles to a minimum. Sometimes there is a temporary 

 exodus from city to country during these periods. 



While a large proportion of migrants are young single 

 Negroes, a large "number alsu move^in families. This 

 means "Qiat In Some areas theYe is a wide fluctuation of 

 school population " and attendance f ronfone year to the 

 next£ In nve years, some counties lose as much as 3 per 



6 A study of the school censuses indicates that from 1908 

 to 1913 the increase in population 6 to 18 years of age in the 

 various counties corresponds rather closely to the rate of in- 

 creas of the total population between 1900 and 1910. The in- 

 creases between 1913 and 1918, however, show plainly the effects 



