12 



CIRCULAR 4 71, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE 



Table 9 gives similar information for Bavaria, for 1908, 1925, and 

 1931. The decrease in employment of children is especially striking. 

 There is also a marked tendency for the proportion of permanent 

 and semipermanent adult male workers to increase, although they 

 have decreased in number as a result of decline in total volume of 

 employment, especially since 1925. The number and percentage 

 distribution of women workers remained fairly constant during the 

 period. 



Table 9.- 



■Percent distribution of laborers in the State forests of Bavaria, according 

 to number of days employed l 



Class of worker 



Year 



Permanent 

 workers 



Semipermanent 

 workers 



Occasional 

 workers 



Labor- 



251-300 

 days 



200-250 

 days 



150-199 

 days 



100-149 

 days 



50-99 



days 



0-50 

 days 



ers em- 

 ployed 



Men 



1 1908 

 \ 1925 

 I 1931 

 1908 

 \ 1925 

 I 1931 

 | 1908 

 \ 1925 

 [ 1931 



Percent 



2.8 

 10.1 



5.9 





 .1 





 .3 

 .3 







Percent 



6.6 



9.6 



11.4 



.2 



.3 







.2 



.1 



.1 



Percent 



10.5 



9.5 



17.7 



.8 



1.4 



.5 



.9 



. 7 



.2 



Percent 



14.6 



12.3 



19.7 



3.5 



4.6 



2.5 



3.0 



2.4 



.8 



Percent 

 27. 2 

 23^8 

 12.4 

 15.4 

 19.9 

 11.2 

 9.0 

 8.8 

 6.0 



Percent 

 38.3 

 04.7 

 32.9 

 80.1 

 73.7 

 86.3 

 86.6 

 87.7 

 92.9 



Number 

 43, 100 

 36,600 



Women ... -.. .. - _ 



17,200 

 17.700 

 18,700 



Children under 16 2 



17,200 

 13,900 

 6,400 





2,300 



1 Based on official reports (5). 



2 Children employed 100 days or more in 1931 were mcstly boys, but about 60 percent of those employed 

 less than 50 days were girls. 



Periods of employment of workers in the State forests of Brunswick 

 are given in table 10. 



Table 10. — Percent distribution of laborers in the State forests of Brunswick 

 according to the number of days employed 1 





Year 



Permanent and regular workers 



Temporary 

 workers 





Class of worker 



180+ 

 days 



141-180 

 days 



101-140 

 days 



61-100 

 days 



0-60 

 days 



All 

 periods 



Aver- 

 age em- 

 ploy- 

 ment 



Labor- 

 ers em- 

 ployed 



Males _ 



| 1931 

 \ 1932 

 I 1933 

 f 1931 

 \ 1932 

 I 1933 



Percent 

 28.1 

 16.3 

 34.6 

 



.2 

 . 7 



Percent 



19.9 



17.1 



12.7 



1.7 



1.3 



.2 



Percent 



20.5 



21.6 



12.4 



1.2 



1.1 



.9 



Percent 



17.3 



22.9 



7.4 



1.0 



.8 



.9 



Percent 

 5.3 

 9.6 

 3.9 

 .4 

 .8 

 .6 



Percent 

 8.9 

 12.5 

 29.0 

 95.7 

 95.8 

 96.7 



Days 

 30 

 21 

 36 

 24 

 20 

 24 



Number 

 1,616 

 1,581 



Females __ . 



1,955 

 1,386 

 1,330 





1,230 



i Based on official reports (7). 



FOREST WORK LARGELY A SUPPLEMENTARY OCCUPATION 



According to the 1925 census of occupations, only 131,460 persons 

 in Germany gave forest work as their main occupation (Hauptberuf). 

 As might be inferred from the short average term of employment 

 of woods workers, most of them spend the greater portion of their 

 time in other occupations. This is well illustrated by the Prussian 

 statistics (table 11). 



