Agricultural Pursuits 



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PAUT II. AGRICULTURAL PURSUIT.S L\ IXDIAXA 

 §1. Siuimiarize<l AgTicultural Pursuits 



The number of workers in various kinds of agricultural pur- 

 suits in Indiana and the number of males and females in each in 

 1910 was as follows : 





Males 



Females 



Total 



Fanners and farm laborers 



323. SOO 



S.136 



331.936 



Gardeners and greenhouse emploves 



4.041 



333 



5.274 





1.735 



5 



1.740 





1.334 



117 



1.451 



Fruit growers and nurserrmen 



977 



44 



1.021 





696 



38 



7.34 





669 





669 





377 



126 



503 





480 



1 



481 



Teamsters and haulers 



. , . 333 





333 



Florists 



250 



4.5 



295 



Landscape gardeners 



17 





17 



Total 





8.845 



344.454 



These same facts are pictured in G-raph 9. 



Gkaph 9 



Wokers in Agricultural Pur^^uits 



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Gardeners, e^.: H H •■'EN ^^\\Of\EK 



§2. Xumber of Workers in Specific Agricultural Pursuits 



Farmers and farm laborers comprised by far the largest single 

 group under the agricultural pursuits, and it will be noted from 

 the following figures that in this group the greater number are 

 farmers. Laborers working out represented about 25 per cent of 

 the total, and home farm laborers about 15 per cent. 



Males Females Total 



Farm laborers 



( workins: out ) 



79.398 



5.133 

 764 



199.2043 

 80.162 



Farm laborers 



(home farm ) 



49.337 



1.762 



51.099 



Farm foremeii 







477 



1.469 









8.136 



331.936 



