Agriculture.-Number of persons engaged in directing the powers of nature towards production from forest and soil, and toward the growth of animals .... :. 3,394,685 Mines.-Number of persons engaged in eliminating the natural products of mines.. Fisheries.-Number of persons engaged in eliminating the natural products of seas and rivers.. Manufactures.-Number of persons engaged in preparing and applying the products of agriculture, mines, and fisheries, for the purposes of consumption and use.. Commerce.-Number of persons engaged in transporting and distributing persons and products, and in effecting the sale and exchange of the various kinds of human wealth... Learned Arts.-Number of persons engaged in practising the following learned arts: medicine, surgery, and dentistry. Domestic Employments.-Number of persons engaged in ministering directly to the wants of the person Amusements.-Number of persons engaged in places of amusement, or in furnishing amusement for the public..... Labor.-Number of persons engaged in occupations requir-. ing no skill, or else in occupations commonly regarded as degrading... Government.-Number of persons engaged in devising, expounding and enforcing human government..... 158,157 26,755 1,787,247 919,351 60,744 632,864 6,784 970,432 70,529 Unknown... 62,872 |