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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
