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TABLE XII

1901

1 902

North

South

Total

North

South

Total

Farmers

27

7

TO

140

140

Farm laborers

711

26,566

20.877

6.4 C?

7Q.I28

45 587

Laborers

8.771;

47.. 210

CI.Q4C

10 147

78 706

68 ?7Q

Total

12,069

69,787

81,852

16,607

97.664

1 1 4. 27 1

1903

1904

North

South

Total

North

South

Total

Farmers

200

678

878

260

269

529

Farm laborers Laborers

6,462 15,622

32,391 85,682

38,853 101,304

5,154 13.526

42,471 42.502

47,625 56,028

Total

22.284

II8.75I

141,035

I9.Q40

85.242

104,102

All of this part of the immigration originates in the rural districts of Italy; even those classified by the Bureau of Immi- gration as laborers are in fact peasants. The enormous majority comes from the south, and, as is shown by the statistics published by the Italian government, the urban population in general, and that of the south in particular, does not emigrate except in very small proportion. It is misleading to consider the laborers as distinct from the farm laborers ; actually they form but one class, and, with the tillers of the soil, represent the total agricultural element. They constitute more than one-half of the entire immi- gration, and, as the gross figures do not bring out clearly the characteristic note of the observation, it can be seen by the per- centage table below :

TABLE XIII PERCENTAGE OF THE AGRICULTURAL ELEMENTS IN TOTAL ITALIAN IMMIGRATION

Year

Northern Italians

Southern Italians

Total

IOOI. .

54.60

60. 2 1

59. TO

1002 ..

60. 12

67.86

67.20

1007..

61 . 14

60. 55

60.38

1004..

51.60

57. >;o

57.14