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BULLETIN 1285, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
their whole working life, though with somewhat reduced individual 
variety. 
Two-fifths of the women had engaged in domestic work during 
their lifetime and one-fourth in industrial work. Many of them 
were still in their teens, but many others were older and married. 
Table 8. — Comparative lifetime and recent occupational history of farm em- 
ployees — Number of American bom and foreign born and women ever 
engaged in each of certain occupations 
Occupation 
Part of occupational history and 
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LIFETIME HISTORY 
American born (497 cases) : 
Number of persons 
105 
21.1 
55 
29.6 


160 
23.4 
65 
497 
42 
135 
27.2 
58 
31.2 
13 
23.6 
193 
28.3 
81 
16.9 
30 
16.1 
114 
16.7 
68 
13.7 
33 
17. 7 
2 
3.6 
101 
14.8 
43 
9.1 
21 
11.3 
66 
9.7 
54 
10.9 
16 
8.6 


70 
10.2 
23 
5.2 
3.8 
33 
4.8 
4 
0.8 
1 
0.5 
1 
1.8 
0.7 
3 
0.6 
1 
0.5 
4 
0.6 
26 
5.2 
9 
4.8 


35 
5.1 
13 
2.6 
3 
1.6 
16 
2.3 
18 
3.6 
1 
0.5 

27 
5.4 
29 
15.6 
99 
Percentage of all cases 
Foreign born (186 cases): 
Number of persons 
100.0 
185 
8.5 
12 
1.4 
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Percentage of all cases 
Ail women (55 cases) : 
Number of persons.. 
99. 5 6. 5 
55 
100.0 
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Percentage of all cases 
All farm employees (C83 cases) : 
40. 
19 [ 56 
2. 8 8. 2 
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Percentage of all cases 
RECENT HISTORY 
January, 1919, to summer of 1922 
American born (497 cases) : 
Number of persons .. . 
99.9 
<80 
93.6 
183 
98.4 
663 
97. 1 
7.9 
39 
7.8 
12 
6.5 
51 
7.5 
1.0 
4 
Percentage of all cases 
Foreign born (186 cases) : 
13.1 
38 
20.4 
103 
15. 1 
2.4 


12 
1.8 
2.4 
9 
4.8 
21 
3.1 
0.8 

Percentage of all cases 
All farm employees (683 cases) : 

4 
Percentage of all cases 
0.6 
Table 9. — Comparatire lifetime and recent occupational liistory of farm 
employees — Numbers of farm employees ever engaged in certain occupations 
or groups of occupations in civil life, exclusively and nonexclusively of other 
occupations 
Occupations in which employees engaged 
Exclusively: 
Agriculture, unskilled. 
Agriculture, skilled 
Agriculture, both skilled and unskilled. 
Agriculture unskilled and industry unskilled 
Agriculture unskilU-d and industry skilled 
Unskilled work only, any type 
Skilled work only, any type 
As well as frequently in others: 
Agriculture and industry (one or both types of each) 
Skilled work, any type 
Skilled work, any type other than agriculture skilled 
Lifetime history 
Recent history 
(January. 1919, to 
summer of 1922) 
Number 
Pir cent 
Number 
261 
38.2 
366 
1 
0.1 
15 
24 
3.5 
22 
71 
10.4 
68 
31 
4.5 
35 
531 
77.7 
550 
1 
0. 1 
17 
260 
38.1 
168 
152 
22.3 
117 
109 
16.0 
73 
Per cent 
53.6 
2.2 
3.2 
10.0 
5.1 
80.5 
2.5 
24.6 
17.1 
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