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PRELUDE 



During year 



MOVEMENT OP POPULATION TO AND FROM FARMS 



Total farm 



Persons leav- 

 ing farms for 



cities 3 



896,000 

 i,3Z3,ooo 

 z,z5z,ooo 

 z,i6z,ooo 

 z, 068, ooo 

 1,038,000 



z,i6z,ooo 

 z,izo,ooo 

 z, 081,000 

 i , 7Z3 , ooo 

 1,469,000 

 1,011,000 



population on 



January ist 



of each year 



3z, 976, 960! 

 19x0 ....... 31,614^692 



192.1 ....... 3i,703,ooo 3 



i9zz ....... 31, 768, ocx> 3 



1913 ....... 31,190,0003 



1914 ....... 3i,o56,ooo 3 



1915 ....... 3i,o64,ooo 3 



I9 2 - 6 ....... 30,784,0002 



1917 ....... 3o,z8i,ooo 3 



19x8 ....... 3o,Z75,ooo 3 



19x9 ....... 3o,z57,ooo 3 



1930 ....... 3o,i69,ooo 3 



1931 ....... 3o,585,ooo 3 



1931 ....... 3i,z4i,ooo 3 



1933 ....... 3z,z4z,ooo 3 



1 Estimated, United States Census. 



2 Enumerated, United States Census. 



8 Revised estimates, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 

 4 Net movement from cities to farms, a reversal of earlier trend. 

 NOTE: Births and deaths not taken into account in estimates of the move- 

 ment. 



ing a change in their ways of living should carefully 

 ponder. The industrialization of agriculture during 

 the past century its transformation from a way of 

 life to a commercial business has very clearly in- 

 creased the migration of farmers and farm-bred peo- 

 ple from the country to the city. And since most of 

 the migrants in the other direction from the city to 

 the country actually consist of people who at one 

 time had lived on farms, it is evident that what we 

 have had for many years are intolerable conditions in 

 the country driving people out of the country, and 

 then intolerable conditions in the city, driving them 

 back again. 



The question to which I have been seeking an an- 



