White farmers, by country of birth and tenure: 1920 and 1910. Since the great majority of the present foreign-born white farmers were in this country before the outbreak of the World War, the whole number has been classified in accordance with the boundaries of their native countries as they existed in 1914, and no attempt has been made to adjust the returns on account of later changes in the political subdivisions of European territory.

FOREIGN-BORN WHITE FARMERS IN THE UNITED STATES, BY COUNTRY OF BIRTH: 1920 AND 1910.

The foreign countries which contributed the largest numbers to the total of 581,068 foreign-born white farmers who were in the United States in 1920 were: Germany, with 140,667; Sweden, with 60,461; Norway, with 51,599; Canada, with 48,668; and Russia, Austria, England, and Denmark, in the order named. This order does not correspond with the order in which the various foreign countries have contributed to the total population of the United States, since the immigrants from certain countries, notably Italy, Poland, and Ireland, have gone chiefly into nonagricultural pursuits.

The farmers from Germany constituted practically one-fourth (24.2 per cent) of the total number of foreign-born white farmers in 1920, and those from the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, and Denmark) nearly another fourth (23.7 per cent), while those from Great Britain and Ireland amounted to less than one-tenth (9.2 per cent) of the total.

The only increases in the number of farmers from any specified country were in those from Poland, Italy, Russia, Hungary, the Netherlands, and France, standing in the order named. The group designated "Other European countries" also shows an increase, and if the figures for four countries shown separately in 1920 but not in 1910 were added, the 1920 total would be more than double that in 1910. Farmers from all other countries for which the 1910 figures are available were fewer in number in 1920 than in 1910. the number from Germany alone showing a decrease of 81,133, or 36.6 per cent.

Acreage and value of farms, by country of birth and tenure of farmer: 1920.-The reports of the census of 1910 showed the number of farmers only, classified by country of birth; hence the comparative figures presented herewith are limited to that item. For 1920, however, the total farm acreage, the acreage of improved land, and the value of land and buildings were tabulated under this classification, by tenure. A summary of the United States totals for each country of birth appears in Table 18, while the same data are given, by tenure, in Tables 19 and 20.

Table 21 gives the per cent distribution by tenure of the number, acreage, and value of the farms operated by foreign-born farmers from each specified country. It must be remembered that both the average age of the farmers and the geographic distribution materially affect the proportion of tenants; hence, in studying the tenure of the farmers from any given country, these factors must be given full consideration.

Tables for divisions and states. Statistics for foreign-born white farm operators classified according to country of birth are presented, by geographic divisions and states, in Tables 22 to 26, inclusive. Table 23 shows the number of farmers classified by tenure as well as by country of birth, and Table 27 shows for 1920, by geographic divisions only, the acreage and value of farms operated by foreign-born white farmers classified in the same way