Excerpt from Influence of Drought and Depression on a Rural Community: A Case Study in Haskell County, KansasA highly mobile population has been characteristic of the county. It has been generally apparent that migration outward has proceeded rapidly during drought periods, but in prosperous years the emigration has been obscured by the inrush of new settlers. For instance, of the 139 farm families enumerated in the State Agricultural Census of 1895 only 40 percent were shown in 1905. Similarly, only 41 percent of those enumerated in 1920 were Operating farms in 1930. Of the 461 Haskell County Operators included in the United States Census of Agriculture for 193o, , 2oc had come to the area within the preceding 5 years. It is thus apparent that instability has been as characteristic of prosperous periods as of years of drought and depression.The high degree of mobility and extreme fluctuations in the size of population in Haskell County cannot be considered abnormal when com pared with older communities in Kansas at a corresponding stage in theirdevelopment. These, too, were characterized by a high rate of turnover during their early history.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.