Profile America — Tuesday, September 22nd. Autumn arrives today at 5:18 p.m., Eastern Daylight time. It’s a time for football games, Halloween and cooler temperatures, including the first frost of the season. It’s also when trees become decked out in glorious colors and birds begin to migrate. And, it’s time for the annual harvest. In the past, this meant entire families helped to bring in the crops to get ready for winter. Up until 1920, more people lived on farms than in cities. That year, there were about 6.5 million farms in the U.S., feeding a population of just over 100 million people. Today, advances in agriculture are such that less than one-third as many farms provide food for a population nearly three times that of 1920.
Profile America is beginning its 13th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: Chase's Calendar of Events 2009, p, 466 Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970, p. 457 Statistical Abstract of the United States 2009, t. 1, 793 http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2009edition.html
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