Report on the Agricultural Experiment Stations, 1951 Page: 53
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RURAL SOCIOLOGY 53
some of the questions with which research in rural sociology is
concerned.
Research during the past year has dealt with the composition of the
rural population and the changes taking place in this population,
including migration. Sociologists have explored existing and developing
problems in specific localities, areas, and regions, and the need
for additional rural and organization activities to help rural people
find greater human contentment and satisfaction of living. Still others
have weighed the significance to the welfare of rural residents, of
local schools, churches, and libraries. Health and welfare as well as
local government have been taken into account in research in rural
sociology. Income and expenditures of rural families and factors
responsible for changes in living standards have been studied. Labor
problems and problems growing out of landlord-tenant relations have
been analyzed, and studies of social change, involving cultural 'patterns,
urban-rural relationships, social psychology, attitudes, and the
-adoption of new practices, have been undertaken.
Migration of rural population
The Storrs station (Connecticut) has under way a study of rural
population growth and changes. The historical sources and destinations
of Connecticut migrants were determined, as were the sources
and characteristics and the destinations within Connecticut of more
recent migrants, and also some of the socioeconomic differences between
such migrants and the 1940 population of Connecticut. Some of
the findings were used in preparing the report of the Governor's Committee
on Community Adjustment in locating a site for a steel mill in
eastern Connecticut. Population data have been tabulated and supplied
to the Connecticut Agricultural Extension Service and other
study groups of the University.
Intrastate movements of population in Missouri from 1935 to 1940
by 10 economic areas were revealed in special U. S. Census tabulations
analyzed by the Missouri station. Interarea migrants had more than
average schooling, and many moved into an adjacent economic area.
The average educational level of specific areas was raised by the net
interchange of population, whereas that of certain other areas was
lowered. St. Louis and Kansas City had net losses of population, but
adjacent economic areas had net gains. Migrant farmers had more
schooling than nonmigrant farmers. Of all farm persons aged 25 or
over, 7.6 percent moved between 1935 and 1940; half of them moved
within an economic area, and half from one area to another. Of
23,775 interregional migrants classified as farmers in 1940, 38 percent
went to farms in economic areas 1, 2, and 3 in Missouri; but 51 percent
of those who were college-trained went to farms in these three
areas. Movement of farmers was toward better land rather than
toward poorer land.
Fewer country doctors in Minnesota
The number of physicians per population in the rural areas of
Minnesota has decreased as compared with urban centers. An experiment
station survey showed that the physician-population ratio has
steadily declined since 1910. In that year the ratio was 914 persons
per physician for Minnesota as a whole, and in 1950 the ratio was 1
physician to 751 persons. In the populous counties of Hennepin,
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