The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.11, page 350, Oct. 1911, U. of Illinois Press

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The BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Papers whites In Moo including all the additions by immigration was only ~ i.2 per cent. In egos Prof. WiDcox of CorneD University, in an article In the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics on ''The Probable Increase of the Negro Race,'' explained the unusual increase reported in Moo as the result of an undercount in Togo. This explanation Is quite probable for it was felt by many that the enumeration of the Negro In Togo was quite defective. A rearrangement of the rates of increase computed by Prof. WiDcox In the article mentioned above shows these rates to be about ~ 7 per cent in Togo, ~4 per cent in Moo and ~ ~ per cent in Anglo. The decreases In these rates of increase are quite natural for a people increasing without the aid of immigration. Similar rates for the English people show similar decreases. ~ wish also to call attention to the-fact that a decreasing rate of increase does not at aD mean that there Is danger of a people becoming extinct for suppose that the rate of increase for the Negroes during the next hundred years should decrease until the average rate for each decade should be 5 per cent. In the year Polo there would be in the United States about ~6,ooo,ooo Negroes. ''A comparison of the increase of Negro fanners with the increase of total Negro population brings out the striking contrast of a population increase of ~ ~ .3 per cent and an increase of farmers of 19.5 per cent. The same facts for the whites show that the white population increased per cent while the white farmers increased only 9.~ per cent. ''It appears from this comparison that the Negroes of the Uruted States with their smaller rate of increase are becoming faImers at more than twice the rate of the whites. In view of the increasing importance of checking the tide away from farming as an occupation, this strong movement into farming on the part of the Negroes ~ a most hopeful indication of the present condition of the race.'' TLpS Con. BOW Papers DLC. ~Durand sent BTW, on Oct. 2~, 19~, statistics on the proportion of the sexes and of mulattoes in the black population for two, comparing them with earlier census returns. (Con. 4~, BTW Papers, DLC.) 2 Blank space left for insertion of exact date. 35O