4 BULLETIN 678, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
POPULATION. 
In 1910 the rural population of Jefferson County, including unin- 
corporated towns, was 38,992, showing an increase of 42.4 per cent 
during the preceding ten years. During the same period the city 
population had increased 9.1 per cent. These figures indicate a rapid 
growth of suburban population. Outside of unincorporated towns, the 
increase was over 30 per cent. The increase in actual farm popula- 
tion was comparatively small, however — probably not over 10 per 
cent, since an increasing number of people who have occupations in 
the city are living in homes in the country. Seven per cent of the 
population in 1909 was foreign born and 32 per cent of mixed parent- 
age. Much the larger part of the foreign population is German. 
FACTS ABOUT FARMING SHOWN BY THE CENSUS OF 1900 AND OF 1910. 
In 1909, according to the census figures, there were 3,093 farms in 
the county, an increase in ten years of about 9 per cent. During the 
previous decade the number of farms under 100 acres in size had in- 
creased 17 per cent, while farms over 100 acres in size had decreased 
about 14 per cent. During the same period the area devoted to the 
raising of vegetables had increased about 29 per cent, and the area 
devoted to cereals decreased about 22 per cent (see Table I). 
Table I. 
-Ch 
anges 
in crop pi 
oduction 
during 
the 
decade 1899-1909. 
Crop 
1900 
acreage. 
1910 
acreage. 
Small fruits: 
818 
1,137 
443 
631 
Total 
1,955 
1 074 
Vegetables: 
6,525 
1,093 
5,787 
9,255 
1 107 
6,920 
Total 
13,405 
17, 282 
Cereals: 
33,316 
18, 136 
31,200 
Wheat 
9,493 
55, 672 
43,2S0 
Within the county, during the decade 1899 to 1909, there was a 
marked decrease in the production of market milk, while three ad- 
joining counties farther out, with railway communications, had a 
marked increase in milk sold (see Table II). The decrease in Jeffer- 
son County was 43 per cent, while the increase in three outside coun- 
ties was about 232 per cent. Jefferson county had a large increase 
in the amount of butter and cream sold, which to some extent made 
up for the loss in market-milk production. Butter, however, is made 
in small quantities as a by-product on nearly all types of farms, so 
that the increase in this product can not be said to make up the loss 
