Conversely the urban population has increased from 29.5 per cent in 1880 to 46.3 per cent of the total population in 1910. These figures do not mean that the changes in the relative proportions of these two classes of population have been caused entirely by the movement from country to city. Immigrants have tended more and more to remain in the cities. especially in New England atnd in the Middle States. The censuses of 1890. 1900. and 1910 took account of the number of farmas operated by owners that were mortgaged or were free from mortgage. and the results are expressed in Table 3. The fraction of farms operated by owners that were mortgaged increased from 28.2 per cent in 1890 to 33.6 per cent in 1910.
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