WHY BOYS LEAVE FARM 



planning to leave it; (2) persons born in 

 towns or cities, and purposing to remain 

 in them; (3) those bred in towns or cities, 

 and planning to go to the farm; (4) those 

 raised on farms, and expecting to remain 

 there. We may now discuss those who 

 plan to leave the farm. 



I make no attempt to discuss the merits 

 and demerits of farm life, or to place 

 values on the replies, or to enter the 

 tempting field of discussion of the psycho- 

 logical aspects of the cases. I mean to put 

 before the reader only the reasons that 

 these earnest young persons think to be 

 the ones that have determined their choice 

 of careers. 



Of course these replies in this chapter 

 are against the farm. They comprise a 

 series of vigorous indictments against the 

 business of farming by persons who have 

 known the business; for nearly all these 

 persons were born and reared on farms, 

 and the few others have lived on farms long 

 enough to make them essentially farm boys. 



In this farm-exodus class I have 155 re- 

 plies. Although the number of respondents 

 93 



