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THE MINORITY REPORT 



the steady growth of our population, our home eon- 

 sumption of food is increasing, and with it the market 

 for an increased agricultural output and its corollary 

 of more employment on the land, the number of agri- 

 cultural workers was until the 1911 census not only not 

 increasing or even holding its own, but actually 

 decreasing.^ 



In the forty years 1871-1911 the total male popula- 

 tion aged ten and upwards in England and Wales has 

 increased by no less than 67 per cent. The total male 



1 TABLE A.— NUMBER OF MALE PERSONS* ENGAGED IN 

 AGRICULTURE IN ENGLAND AND WALES AT EACH CENSUS 

 1871-1911. 



• In the later censuses the figures relate to persons ten years of age and upwards, but 

 in 1871 and 1881 persons under ten years are included. In each year, however , the figures 

 for farmers' relatives exclude those under fifteen years. 



t In the census of 1891, Domestic Gardeners were not shown separately. It is, there- 

 fore, impossible to supply the number of persons in Class 6 in the above table. 



