ulation varying from
7.9 per cent. in Maryland to only 0.2 per cent. in North Carolina.

The foreign born, conspicuous in the Northwest and the North Atlantic
States, were mostly confined to cities. They had augmented only 12.4 per
cent. as against 38.5 per cent. from 1880 to 1890. Nearly a third of the
recorded immigration from 1890 to 1900 was missing in the enumeration,
due only in part to census errors. Many foreigners had returned to their
native lands, most numerous among these being Canadians. The
preponderance of immigrants was no longer from Ireland, Canada, Great
Britain, and Germany, but from Austria-Hungary, Bohemia, Italy, Russia,
and Poland.

In 1900 the United States proper had 89,863 Chinese against 107,488 in
1890. Of Japanese there were 24,326 against only 2,039 in 1890. In the
Hawaiian Islands alone the Chinese numbered 25,767 and the Japanese
61,111. Natives of Germany still constituted the largest body of our
foreign born, being 25.8 per cent. of the whole foreign element compared
with 30.1 percent. in 1890. The proportion was about the same in 1900 as
in 1850.

The Irish were 15.6 per cent. of the foreign born. The figures had been
20.2 per cent. in 1890, and 42.8 per cent. in 1850. The proportion of
native Scandinavians and Danes had slightly increased. Poles. Bohemians,
Austrians, Huns, and Russians comprised 13.4 per cent. of the foreign
born as against 6.9 per cent. in 1890, and less than one-third per cent.
in 1850.

The congressional apportionment act based on the twelfth census, and
approved January 16, 1902, avoided the disagreeable necessity of cutting
down the representation of laggard States by increasing the House
membership from 357 to 386, a gain of twenty-nine members. Twelve of
these (reckoning Louisiana) came from west of the Mississippi, two from
New England, three each from Illinois and New York, four from the
southern States east of the Mississippi, two each from Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, and one from Wisconsin.

The number of farms shown by the twelfth census was over five and
one-half million, four times the number reported in 1850, and more than
a million above the number reported in 1890. This wonderful increase,
greater for the last decade than for any other except that between 1870
and 1880, denoted a vast augmentation of cultivated area in the South
and in the middle West. Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and Texas alone
added over two hundred thousand to the number o