1920 Census Notes from newspapers of the day:

From the Woodland Daily Democrat, (Woodland, CA), October 26, 1921: 

  "Co-operative marketing is highly important to the people
of the United States, for the United States Bureau of Census 
has recently stated that one-third of all persons gainfully
employed in the United States actually work on farms, while
more than one-half of the total population of the country is
directly dependent on agriculture for a livelihood."

From the Wichita Daily Times, (Wichita, TX), December 17, 1921: 

  "The total number of negroes reported as being born in 
southern states and living in the north and west had in-
creased from 440,534 in 1910 to 780,794 in 1920, the census
bureau announced today in a special report on negro immigra-
tion based on returns of the last census.  The southern
boundaries of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Missouri, and Kansas were taken as the dividing line
between the north and south for the purposes of the report.
  "Of the 10,384,309 negroes enumerated in the last census
there were 38,575 for whom no state of birth was reported.
The 780,794 southern born negroes shown to have migrated to
the north or west constituted 81 percent of the total of
9,006,943 negroes born in the southern section.  The per-
centage of this migration for the preceding decade was not
shown."

From the Washington Post, (Washington, DC), December 12, 1921: 

  "1.4 Per Cent Gain in 1920 Over 1919 - California Presents
Some Striking Contrasts. - The American birth rate advanced
1.4 per cent in 1920 as compared with 1919, the census bureau
announced yesterday.
  "The birth rate was 23.7 per cent per 1,000 population last
year as compared with 22.3 per cent in 1919, according to the
bureau's figures.  The rate last year, however, was 1.3 per 
cent below the rate of 1916, which the bureau declared may be
looked upon as a more normal year, as it preceded the 
influenza epidemic and the entrance of the United States into
the war.
  "The highest birth rate for the white population last year
was reported from North Carolina, with 31.7 per cent, and the
lowest, for California, with 18.3 per cent.  The highest rates
for the "colored" population, in which the bureau's classifi-
cation includes negroes, Indians, Chinese and Japanese, were
39.5 and 39.3 per cent, for Washington and California, respec-
tively.
  "The figures in all cases were based on the reports from the
birth registration area which included 23 States and the Dis-
trict of Columbia."

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